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Question 1

Define KWIC

Answer 1

• Key word in context
• Type of concordance in corpus linguistics
• Key word under investigation in column, contextual sentence either side
• Used to look at patterns of use

Question 2

Define semantic prosody

Answer 2

• Neutral word carrying negative or positive associations in frequent collocations

Eg. how complete can be positive or negative depending on the words near it

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