ABSTRACT
This chapter moves from the discussion of design and development of electronic text resources to techniques and practices in data analysis.The particular focus of this chapter will be on the quantitative exploration of texts and text collections, and, as such, it will be mainly concerned with the role of frequencies in individual texts and in comparisons between different texts. In this context, the chapter will discuss different types of wordlists and ways in which they can be used for contrastive studies of different texts. The analysis of individual lexical items and phrases will be discussed further in chapter four.
