ABSTRACT
The field of electronic text analysis has been expanding rapidly over the past decades. This is partly due to advances in information technology and software development, but also as a result of the growing interest in using electronic resources to complement more traditional approaches to the analysis of language and literature. The improved accessibility of computers has added to the increasing popularity of electronic text analysis, especially in the higher education context.The development of principled collections of electronic texts, also called corpora, has allowed a systematic exploration of recurring patterns in language in use, and this has become one of the main areas of enquiry in the emerging field referred to as corpus linguistics.
