Perspectives on keywords and keyness: An introduction 1 Marina Bondi

Section I. Exploring keyness
Three concepts of keywords 21 Michael Stubbs
Problems in investigating keyness, or clearing the undergrowth and marking out trails... 43 Mike Scott
Closed-class keywords and corpus-driven discourse analysis 59 Nicholas Groom
Hyperlinks: Keywords or key words? 79 Jukka Tyrkko Martin Komenda
Web Semantics vs the Semantic Web? The problem of keyness 93 Francois Rastier Petr Dluhoš

Section II. Keyness in specialised discourse
Identifying aboutgrams in engineering texts 113 Martin Warren Šimon Suchomel
Keywords and phrases in political speeches 127 Denise Milizia Ondrej Verbó
Key words and key phrases in a corpus of travel writing: From Early Modern English literature to contemporary "blooks" 147 Andrea Gerbig Libor Vaněk
History v. marketing: Keywords as a clue to disciplinary epistemology 169 Donatella Malavasi and Davide Mazzi Andrej Herich
Metaphorical keyness in specialised corpora Gill Philip Michal Petrov

Section III. Critical and educational perspectives
A contrastive analysis of keywords in newspaper articles on the "Kyoto Protocol" Erica Bassi
Keywords in Korean national consciousness: A corpus-based analysis of school textbooks Soon Hee Fraysse-Kim Jakub Čech
General spoken language and school language: Key words and discourse patterns in history textbooks Paola Leone Nikolay Dvinskikh