“Da Jia Hao”……. Hi. Its me again, Azlan updating my wordpress. Time passes really fast and this will be my final posting or task for the course SKBP1023 ”Language And Information Technology”. I will like to take this chance to thank Prof. Madya Datin Dr. Norizan for teaching and guiding me throughout this semester. I really learned lots of new things through this course. To all my coursemates, good luck in the coming final examination. Let go on to my final posting.
Once again, we are required to answer few questions. This week, we learned something about concordance or concordancer in our lecture. What is concordance??? Do you have any ideas? It is something about dance as we can see the word “dance” in concordance……. Stop guessing, I’m going to define the word concordance for you now.
Concordance is
A concordance is an alphabetical list of the principal words used in a book or body of work, with their immediate contexts. Reference/Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concordance_(publishing)
An alphabetical index of all the words in a text or corpus of texts, showing every contextual occurrence of a word: a concordance of Shakespeare’s works. Reference/Source: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/concordance
An alphabetical list of the chief words used in a book or by a writer, with the passages in which they occur identified or cited. Reference/Source: http://www.yourdictionary.com/concordance
An alphabetical index of all the words in a text or corpus of texts, showing every contextual occurrence of a word: a concordance of Shakespeare’s works. Reference/Source: http://www.answers.com/topic/concordance
After defining what is concordance, I’m going to introduce a website contains concordancer……..
Concordancer: http://www.edict.com.hk/concordance/
How to use the concordancer.
1. Click on the website. (The url provided)
2. Then, click on the word “Simple Search” and you will get this page. Its the concordancer.
3. Type the word that you want to search into the search string column. After that, select the corpus and click the “search for concordance” button. For example, I want to search occurence of the word “Alice”. I type the word “Alice” in the search string column. Then, I select the corpus “Alice In The Wonderland by Lewis Carroll” and I click the button.
4. This is what I got……
That all about concordance and concordancer…….. Click on the links that I provided if you want to use the concordancer. The information above are taken from the internet. I do not own any of the information. Do click on the links for further reading. All credits go to the links provided. Thanks for viewing my final posting. Do drop some comments…….
hye azlan..nice posting of the concordance webpage.. i want to put it too.. +_+
keep up the good work!.. ;D
Comment by hanakimi883 — March 26, 2010 @ 5:34 pm
Ur webpage is nice too…..
Comment by abangazlan89 — April 2, 2010 @ 1:55 am