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A list, today usually derived from a corpus , showing all instances of a chosen lexical item and indicating its immediate context (before and after). This allows statements to be made about the item's collocation (the importance of which was emphasized in Firth's work on lexical context). Concordances may be used as a tool in language teaching, to assist learners (or trainee teachers) to become aware of how chosen items behave; see Goodale (1995) for an example. (See also computational linguistics .) ( 1995 ). Concordance Samplers 2: Phrasal Verbs . London : HarperCollins . ... log in or subscribe to read full text
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