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Collocational Networks: the foundation text

What is it about?

This text introduces the concept of collocational networks as a means of understanding language use and of managing lexical knowledge.

Why is it important?

This was the first publication outlining this important methodological approach that makes sense out of language clouds. Clouds simply provide a form of mist fro the lexically ignorant, networks allow you to explore that data and extract meaning in context. It is a true corpus-dtievn methodology in a Sinclairian perpective. Much copied, name changing is a bad academic practice.

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