MEMORY and MEMORIES in lexical environment: Bibliometric analysis

This study is devoted to detection of the lexical environment and demonstration of the thematic medium of the words MEMORY and MEMORIES in the social sciences on the basis of the bibliographic database Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) of the Institute for Scientific Information (USA). The amount of studied material is over 3000 documents in English. Corresponding corpora and subcorpora of summary texts are formed, general frequency dictionaries and frequency dictionaries of binary combinations for each corpus and subcorpus are constructed, words and combinations specific for each subcorpus are found, and corresponding factors (lexical markers) are calculated for them. The general statistical information on the usage of the words under study is given, the obtained results of lexical analysis are represented in a tabulated form, and the corresponding semantic maps are discussed.