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SUMMARY:#RC21 Patricia Ronan: Concordances versus manual investigation
 \, exploiting their strengths and weaknesses
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 akers and project team members will present their work on methodology 
 and applications of concordance analysis! &nbsp\; Patricia Ronan: »Co
 ncordances versus manual investigation\, exploiting their strengths an
 d weaknesses« Abstract: According to Sinclair (1991: 32)\, a concorda
 nce\, in its simplest form\, is an index for a place of a word’s occ
 urrence in a text. Even though the not-so-simple forms of concordances
  and concordance use are considerably more complex\, the simplicity of
  concordances makes them such a powerful tool. The current contributio
 n discusses concordance use in different contexts. It focuses on the u
 se of concordances in corpus-based language variation research and in 
 language learning contexts. The use of concordances in language variat
 ion research is wide-spread and well-established (cf. e.g. Tribble 201
 0). Obvious advantages of concordance uses are allowing word-form\, wi
 ld-card and phrase searches\, and added benefits of restricting large 
 output through sort criteria\, which provides researchers with easy ac
 cess to large data sets. Evaluation of such output\, especially when s
 trongly restricted\, not only allows variety comparison\, but can also
  be used for teaching purposes. As a result\, using concordances is al
 so advocated in classroom language teaching (e.g. Harrington 2023\, Se
 livan 2023): using concordances provides teachers and learners with ea
 sy access to large-scale\, real-life language data and allows students
  to learn by doing. Here\, too\, sufficient restriction of search crit
 eria is necessary\, however\, to prevent being drowned in data. A diff
 erent type of disadvantage of concordance use\, next to obtaining too 
 much data for analysis and the possible necessity of strict search cri
 teria\, is that the focus on search terms and search windows typically
  offers little insight into the wider corpus context. Both structures 
 not covered by the search terms and further linguistic a
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