ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the practical and analytical concerns that are involved in preparing material for use in conjunction with concordancing software. It describes some basic steps that can be used in corpus linguistics to examine social media texts, moving from simple searches which identify the frequency of individual words in a text, to more complex forms of analysis which compare frequencies across different corpora. The chapter gives some examples of how quantitative forms of analysis might lend themselves to automated forms of representation as visualisation. It focuses to using a corpus to undertake linguistic analyses. The chapter introduces three frequently used kinds of analysis: frequency, keyness and collocations. A common form of social media visualisation can be found in techniques for representing relationships between users. These approaches represent non-linguistic links between users in a social media network. Social media text visualisation usually focuses on visualising social text stream data.
