CONCORDANCE

In the last tutorial,Datin divided us into 4 groups, each groups have 4 peoples.She want us to discuss the occurances of the article"a"in the concordance.This task sounds simple, just discuss the occurances only,but later i found that its quite complicated to me...After the discussion , 1 person from each group will present their work,Datin said all of us have the chance to present, to talk in front the people...im gonna do my best,i know......

Concordance is a tool or a program( software) that helps to list the words in the context.Its function are analyze the text, suitable for those who wants to study texts closely or analyze language in depth.Concordance use to make indexes and word list, count words frequencies, compare diffrent usage of a word, analyze key words, find phrases and idioms, and also publish to the web.The applications of concordance is language teaching and learning, data mining and data clean up, literary work and linguistic , translation, corpus linguistics and content analysis.

In the discussion about the occurancess of the article"a", we found that "a" is usually occur before a noun and an adjective. It function as subject/subject complement/object or object complement etc. "The or cuffin him not a minute before,"a" is occur before a noun,that is minute.It function as a subject complement because "a" is giving more information about the subject "him" in the concordance."was made into a kind of shepherd,receiving his", "a" in this concordance still occur before a noun but now it function as a object complement. It explain the object.In another example:"bedridden,forehold a downfore of snow before long""a" occur before a noun ,too.It function as a object.In the discussion, we also found that apart from noun,"a"also occur before an adjective.Now ,lets look at it,"me now.I pluked up a brave heart, howeverand took"At here,"a"is come before anadjective, it function as a object and the adjective"brave"function as a pre-modifier of the word"heart"."out once more-a long despairing, wailing cry,to",in this case,"a" still come before an adjective but the diffrent is it function as a subject now."ways.i supposed i was a clever lad,at any rate,i always got",we can found that"a"also occur before an adjective,nevertheless, it function as a subject complement. The word "clever"use to describe "lad"as a pre-modifier.

There is an article about concordance in the OLT book,"BEYOND CONCORDANCE LINES:USING CONCORDANCE TO INVESTIGATE LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT,by Arshad Abd.Samad,UPM.From the article , i knew that teachers, reseachers and language leaners tend to examine concordance lines to discover how words and grammatical construction are used. Besides,the language corpus is used as the basic of dictionaries and teaching materials but its use is now enhanced by concordance software. Concordance software can help analyzing language data and greatly extend the potential of corpus. Concordance software can be used to help analyze the language data available but we still be easily disturbed by the huge amount of data available.