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(Person) Percentage - Sabanci University Research Database

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The Asian Media & Mass Communication Conference 2010 Osaka, Japan<br />

However, in the present study, which compares Addison’s essays with those of the other<br />

Spectator contributors, we can at least go as far as to say that the keyness of the may<br />

suggest a relatively more formal style of expression for Addison over his fellow writers.<br />

3.2 Keywords in Steele<br />

The procedure for obtaining keywords for Steele was identical to that described above,<br />

except that the Steele subcorpus was compared with a combination of the wordlists<br />

generated from Addison.txt and Others.txt. Table 4 shows the semantic groupings for<br />

the 53 (out of 69) Steele keywords that could be assigned to patterns, and Table 5 the<br />

top ten keywords ranked according to keyness.<br />

Pattern (number of items) Realizations<br />

Names (6) Pharamond, Eucrate, Miller, Buck,<br />

Alexandrinus, Rhynsault<br />

Life in society (13) company, favour, service, power, glory,<br />

merit, worthy, kindness, gallantry,<br />

gentleman, prince, officer, condition<br />

People (8) man, fellow, men, gentleman, prince,<br />

officer, people, crowds<br />

<strong>Person</strong>al pronouns and possessives (5) you, he, she, her, your<br />

Mental processes and objects (5) imaginable, methinks, know, ability,<br />

ambition<br />

Modals (3) can, will, should<br />

Evaluatives (3) good, agreeable, honest<br />

Emotions (3) sorrow, shame, negligent<br />

Places (2) town, court<br />

Communication (2) say, said<br />

Copula (2) is, be<br />

Quantifiers (2) all, any<br />

Time (2) ever, youth<br />

Table 4: Keyword patterns - Steele<br />

No. Keyword Frequency Keyness<br />

Score<br />

No. Keyword Frequency Keyness<br />

Score<br />

1. you 477 413.45 6. Pharamond 36 87.65<br />

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