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Keywords
Type Signals Examples
Conclusion or a summation of informa- therefore; thus; in conclusion; believes; so; consequently; it can be seen
Causality tion that; can conclude that; claims that; all in all;
Continuation more support for the and; also; moreover; furthermore; plus; in addition; at the same time; as
same claim is cumming well as; equally;besides; what is more; both...and; equally important; not
only...but also
Contrast (lin- a comparison of similari- but; despite; yet; however; alternatively; still; although; unless; other-
guistics) ties and differences wise; not; though; while; nevertheless; by contrast; notwithstanding;
rather; conversely; in spite of; on the other hand; contrarily
what is considered im- I think; above all; essentially; clearly; most of all; especially; primarily;
portant particularly; in large measure; indeed;
Evidence an upcoming background because; for; since; the reason is that;
Illustration/Ex- that an example is being for example; for instance; specifically; to illustrate; such as; In the
emplification given as support for a words of; To "name"; For "name"; According to "name"; as "name"
claim. says,;
Sequence that there is a structure Firstly,...,Secondly,...Thirdly,...Lastly; Next; Finally; On the one hand; Re-
or order that has been cently;
formulated in the writing
Keywords are the words that are used to reveal the in- cedure used for example by WordSmith in order to list
ternal structure of an author’s reasoning. While they are key words/phrases and plot where they appear in texts.
used primarily for rhetoric, they are also used in a strictly These items are very often of interest, particularly inter-
grammatical sense for structural composition, reasoning, esting are those which human readers would be unlike-
and comprehension. Indeed, they are an essential part of ly to notice such as prepositions, time adverbs and pro-
any language. nouns.
There are many different types of keyword categories See also: Scott, M. & Tribbe, C., 2006, Textual Patterns:
including: Conclusion, Continuation, Contrast, Emphasis, keyword and corpus analysis in language education, Amster-
Evidence, Illustration and Sequence. Each category dam: Benjamins.
serves its own function, as do the keywords inside of a
given category.
Sources
• Transitional Words and Phrases
English Keywords
key words - adjectives verbs nouns
Corpus Linguistic Key Words
In corpus linguistics, key words can be identified as
words which appear with statistically unusual frequency
in a text or a corpus of texts; as such they are identified
by software by comparing a word-list of the text in ques-
tion with a word-list based on a larger reference corpus.
A suitable term for the phenomenon is keyness. The pro-
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