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MAXdictio – Vocabulary Analysis

You can reconstruct following examples yourself by downloading following MAXqda -file which contains the four Gospels in a prepared MAXqda -file. [Download Gospels]

Vocabulary Analysis --- Creating a Dictionary --- MAXdictio Coder --- Exporting to Excel

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In the fist example , we want to explore, which words are used in the Gospel of Luke , and where and in which context the word "people" appears.

Activate the text "Gospel of Luke" and select the Wordfrequency-function for activated texts.

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After a short while, the result will appear:

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A click on the column "word", and the table will be brought in an alphabetical order, beginning with numbers. By clicking on the column which contains the "frequencies", the table will be brought into a new order, according to the frequencies.

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The most frequent words in the Gospel of Luke are " xyz ", " abc ", and " dfe ". These are no sense-bearing words, and probably not interesting for the search result. MAXdictio allows to enter such words into a stop-list, with the effect, that these words are not considered in a further search. Double-clicking on the green symbol in front of each word adds it to the stop-list. It is advisable to look through about the 50 first words of the list and mark all uninteresting ones as stop-words.

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Take a look at the stop-list , which now has been created:
Tip: Stop-lists can be saved and used again and again, also for other projects.
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Start the frequency-function for the Gospel of Luke anew.

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Now we want to find out, where and in which context the word "people" appears. Click on the word with the right mouse button and select the option "Create Index".

You will be confronted with a pretty large number of hits. By clicking on the according place in the Gospel of Luke, the text will be loaded into the text-browser. The hits can also be exported and coded.

Now you can compare these results with the Gospel of Mark by activating this and deactivating the Gospel of Luke.

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