Thank you for permitting me to post to this Discussion Board.
I am working on my dissertation and plan to use Antconc as part of the methods. Although I am familiar with Antconc, I have little experience using it.
What I would like help with is in making sure I am using it in a way that makes sense for my project and in understanding how to accurately interpret the results.
Here is the description of my project:
Looking at one specific academic journal, I am examining language from a specific article genre from 1996-2013. I am looking at these articles from a historiographic perspective in an attempt to answer two questions:
Using the three statements linked above, I created a reference corpus (Linguistic Justice Key). I did a keyword search using my corpus as a target corpus and the AmE06 as the reference corpus. This list produced many of the terms I was anticipating.
My plan is to examine the articles from 1996-1999, 2000-2009, 2010-2019, 2020-2023 for evidence that they engage with the ideas of linguistic justice represented in the reference corpus.
I expect that the results from Antconc will point to articles that require closer reading and analysis. Articles that do not use any of the keyterms from the reference corpus suggests no direct engagement.
Does this plan sound viable? Are there immediate issues or concerns that you see?
I welcome your advice.