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Guardian Weekly "Word search" column

I have been writing a regular column for the Guardian Weekly since October 2004. In it I use simple corpus tools to discuss how we use words in specific contexts - and how patterns of use emerge when they are seen from a corpus linguistic perspective. I will be adding a collection of articles to this site in the coming weeks, along with supplementary wordlists which might interest teachers and students. If you would like to use the wordlists from the different articles in the series, I am building a set of these for you to use with your students. Click on the links below to access the lists (they can be all be downloaded az ZIP documents):

SERIES 1

Article 5: highs and lows

Article 6: Adjectives

Article 7: body parts (Excel spreadsheet)

Article 8: Elections (right sorted collocates for election/candidate/voter - can be opened and analysed in Excel)

Article 10: People collocates (files can be opened and analysed in Excel) 1996 - 2005

Article 11: Disasters, Catastrophe, Tragedy (collocates)

Article 12: Four Seasons (collocates)

Article 13: Leaders (collocates)

Article 14: Key things (collocates)

Article 17: Lines, circles and dots

Article 18: New Words (concordances for 10 new words in the GW)