(Person) Percentage - Sabanci University Research Database

The Asian Media & Mass Communication Conference 2010 Osaka, Japan
criticks, poem, fable, book, works,
tragedy, verse, poetry, Homer, Milton,
Virgil, Milton’s, Paradise (Lost), opera,
description
Christian religion (8) Adam, Eve, angels, Satan, paradise,
infernal, soul, creation
Personal pronouns and possessives (5) them, we, our, us, its
Classifications (5) kind, nature, kinds, species, particular
Prepositions (3) in, upon, up
Evaluatives (3) beautiful, finely, beauties
Languages and nationalities (2) English, Greek
Comparisons (2) likewise, same
Rankings (2) first, principal
Mental processes and objects (2) imagination, ideas
Determiners (2) the, those
Table 2: Keyword patterns - Addison
No. Keyword Frequency Keyness
Score
No. Keyword Frequency Keyness
Score
1. several 571 160.39 6. in 7023 70.73
2. which 2735 127.94 7. English 155 69.13
3. reader 249 111.95 8. Homer 93 62.70
4. poem 175 97.87 9. Milton 105 62.14
5. poet 166 80.08 10. likewise 127 59.30
Table 3: Top ten keywords - Addison
A large number of the keywords are proper nouns, whether the names of writers (Homer,
Milton, Virgil, Milton’s), literary works (Paradise (Lost): almost half of all occurrences
of Paradise were from the title of Milton’s epic poem), languages or nationalities
(English, Greek), or Biblical characters (Adam, Eve, Satan). In a keyword analysis
names are always likely to float up near the top of the list, and their content tends to
reflect the ‘aboutness’ of a text. This will become even clearer in the discussion below.
By far the biggest semantic grouping is the one which contains words referring to the
arts, and amongst the arts mainly literature. These may be people, whether producers
(poet, poets, authors, writers), poets (Homer, Milton, Virgil, Milton’s), or consumers
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