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International Journal of Lexicography Advance Access originally published online on July 5, 2008
International Journal of Lexicography 2008 21(3):311-323; doi:10.1093/ijl/ecn021
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This article appears in the following International Journal of Lexicography issue: Special Issue: The Legacy of John Sinclair [View the issue table of contents]

The Lexis of Electronic Gaming on the Web: A Sinclairian Approach

Vincent B.Y. Ooi

Department of English Language and Literature, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117570 (vinceooi{at}nus.edu.sg)


  Abstract

Further to the idea suggested in Ooi (2000) that Sinclair's most recent lexical model can be considered for examining linguistic phenomena on the Web such as electronic gaming, this paper proposes to refine the methodology for discovering lexical units of meaning for this popular online genre. The evidence comes from an approximately 1-million word corpus comprising advertising descriptions, gaming reviews, and discussion forums among gaming participants. This dataset is first subjected to an integrated corpus linguistic tool, WMatrix, which affords word frequency profiles, concordances, part-of-speech annotation and semantic content analyses. Illustrative lexemes from this genre are derived from an inspection of the concordances using Sinclair's model and compared with some popular online dictionaries for their respective range of coverage.


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