text type
A text type refers to attributes (author, publication year, source…) assigned to structures (documents, paragraphs, sentences…) in a corpus. Text types can contain any information, textual or numerical, not only a type of text. Corpora may not have text types.
[We follow Biber (1989) in using text type as a generic term for the many ways in which a text might be classified. Some sources use metadata, headers or header information to refer to the same thing.]
Text types can be used to narrow the search down to only certian text types by using the text type selector.
Text types can also be used to divide the corpus into subcorpora based on a combination of text types.
Check the text types
The list of all text types in the corpus is displayed on the corpus info page.
Typical textypes for collocations
The word sketch can identify which text types are typical of concrete collocations. read more…
See also
Inserting text types (metadata) to your corpus
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