Keyness in Texts -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Perspectives on keywords and keyness: An introduction -- 1. Keywords and keyness in language studies -- 2. The keyness metaphor in knowledge management:"Aboutness" as subject matter -- 3. The keyness metaphor and text interpretation:Subject matter and organization -- 4. Keyness in text and discourse: A sample analysis -- 5. Overview of the chapters -- References -- I. Exploring keyness -- Three concepts of keywords -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Part 1. Three concepts of keywords -- 2.1 Keywords sense 1 (Williams 1976/1983): Words and culture -- 2.2 Keywords sense 2 (Scott & Tribble 2006): Words and texts -- 2.3 Keywords sense 3 (Francis 1993): Phrases and schemas -- 3. Part 2: The dualism of agency and structure -- 3.1 Texts in society: Some very banal observations -- 3.2 Puzzles of social theory -- 4. Concluding comments -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Problems in investigating keyness, or clearing the undergrowth and marking out trails -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Colonists and prospectors -- 3. Issues -- 3.1 Machine and human KWS -- 4. Text section v. text v. corpus v. sub-corpus -- 5. Statistical issues -- 5.1 The farmer and his crops -- 6. Choosing a reference corpus -- 7. Related forms -- 8. Status of the KW -- 9. Shakespeare's KWs -- 9.1 Hamlet -- 9.2 DO in Othello -- 10. Conclusion -- References -- Closed-class keywords and corpus-driven discourse analysis -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Closed-class keywords as valid objects of analysis -- 3. Closed-class keywords as preferred objects of analysis -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix 1 -- Hyperlinks: Keywords or key words? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Statistical keywords and discourse topics -- 3. Hyperlinks: Cataphoric references - and key words? -- 4. Hyperlinks and keywords: A contrastive case study.

5. Conclusions -- References -- Web Semantics vs the Semantic Web? -- 1. The ambitions and credibility of the Semantic Web -- 2. Habits of thought and current limits -- 2.1 Postulates for the representation of knowledge -- 2.2 Current debate -- 2.3 Ontologies and the Semantic Web -- 2.4 Requirements for linguistics -- 2.5 Abolishing text amnesia -- 3. Reconceptions -- 3.1 Dynamic elaboration -- 3.2 Textual knowledge -- 4. Proposals -- 4.1 Typology of keyness -- 4.2 Towards Web Semantics -- 4.3 The complexity of all data -- 4.4 Suspicious metadata -- References -- II. Keyness in specialised discourse -- Identifying aboutgrams in engineering texts -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Concgrams -- 3. From concgrams to aboutness and aboutgrams -- 4. Data -- 5. Analysis of data -- 6. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Keywords and phrases in political speeches -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data and method -- 3. One million words vs five million words -- 3.1 The main concern of Tony Blair in 2005-2007? -- 4. Uncovering n-grams and concgrams -- 4.1 An issue, a challenge, a threat -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- Key words and key phrases in a corpus of travel writing -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Key words: Implications and other studies -- 3. The corpus -- 4. Method and findings -- 4.1 Key words in the travel corpus -- 4.2 Key-key words and associates -- 4.3 Key words and their contexts - Extended lexical units -- 4.4 Key phrases -- References -- History v. marketing: Keywords as a clue to disciplinary epistemology -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Materials and methods -- 3. Results -- 3.1 Self-representation across disciplines: We v. historians -- 3.2 Objects of the disciplines -- 3.3 Disciplinary procedures -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- Metaphorical keyness in specialised corpora -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Metaphor and textual meaning -- 2.1 Terminology note.

2.2 Metaphors in text -- 3. Metaphors and corpora -- 3.1 Corpus composition -- 3.2 Locating metaphorical lexis -- 4. Metaphor themes and key metaphor themes -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- III. Critical and educational perspectives -- A contrastive analysis of keywords in newspaper articles on the "Kyoto Protocol" -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Materials and preliminary methods -- 3. Defining a keyword in news discourse -- 4. Semantic fields -- 5. Keywords -- 6. Conclusions -- References -- Keywords in Korean national consciousness -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data -- 3. Findings -- 3.1 Frequency -- 3.2 The use of wuli (we, our) -- 3.3 The use of ilbon (Japan) -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- General spoken language and school language -- 1. Definition and purposes of the research project -- 2. Words for studying in a second language -- 3. CoMaS, a corpus of history textbooks -- 4. The Lexicon of Spoken Italian: LIP -- 5. Research questions and methodology -- 6. The key word-list -- 6.1 Framing the discourse: Time and transformation in historical narrative -- 6.2 Causality and interpretation of events -- 6.3 Noun phrases -- 6.4 "Aboutness" -- 7. Limitations of the study -- 8. Conclusions -- References -- Index -- The series Studies in Corpus Linguistics.