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	Keyword-in-Context (KWIC) Analysis	Corpus Concordance Analysis
สาขาวิชา	ภาษาศาสตร์	ภาษาศาสตร์
ตระกูล	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
ปีกำเนิด	1960	1991
ผู้ริเริ่ม	H. P. Luhn (information retrieval); adopted in corpus linguistics by John Sinclair	Corpus linguists (John Sinclair; Paul Baker)
ประเภท	Indexing and display technique aligning a keyword with its surrounding co-text	Corpus-based descriptive analysis of word usage in context
แหล่งต้นตำรับ	Luhn, H. P. (1960). Key word-in-context index for technical literature (KWIC index). American Documentation, 11(4), 288–295.	Baker, P. (2006). Using Corpora in Discourse Analysis. Continuum. ISBN: 9780826477248
ชื่อเรียกอื่น	KWIC Index, Key Word in Context, Concordance Line Display	Concordance Analysis, KWIC Analysis, Keyword-in-Context Analysis
ที่เกี่ยวข้อง	4	4
สรุป	Keyword-in-context (KWIC) analysis is the indexing and display technique that presents every occurrence of a chosen keyword aligned in a fixed central column, flanked by a set span of the words that precede and follow it. Invented by H. P. Luhn in 1960 to index technical literature, the KWIC format became the standard way to read a concordance: by stacking instances of the keyword so they line up vertically, it lets an analyst scan the surrounding co-text for recurrent neighbors and patterns. It is the specific display layer underlying broader corpus concordance work, valued because alignment turns a list of scattered occurrences into a visually legible pattern. Today KWIC views are the default output of every corpus-analysis tool and the entry point for studying collocation, colligation, and meaning in context.	Corpus concordance analysis is a core corpus-linguistic technique that retrieves every occurrence of a search word or phrase from a large body of machine-readable text and displays them in keyword-in-context (KWIC) format — the target term aligned in a central column with its surrounding co-text. By reading and sorting these lines, analysts uncover the recurrent patterns, collocations, and meanings of words as they are actually used, grounding linguistic claims in attested evidence rather than introspection.