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This article explains the term competition in linguistics. For the meeting of two liturgical days in the Roman Catholic church year see liturgical ranking .

The expression occurrence (from the Latin occurrere : “to meet, to meet”) initially simply means “to occur” and can be used in different meanings, for example for events that are currently taking place or for mental states that have just been experienced.

Linguistics

In linguistics, occurrence is the frequency with which a certain linguistic element can be found in a more complex linguistic construct. This is a criterion for textual coherence . The linguists Robert-Alain de Beaugrande and Wolfgang Ulrich Dressler defined a text as communicative competition , provided that this communicative competition fulfills certain criteria of textuality .

In semantic text analysis - for example, based on algorithms - the co-occurrence analysis is a mathematical approach to determine the semantic relationship between a word and other words within a part of a sentence or the entire text. Using relative frequency distributions and matrix evaluations, it can thus be mathematically proven how likely a contextual relationship is correct (value = 1) or incorrect (value = 0). An example: The phonological word / poor / has an competition of 2 in “Better to be poor than poor”; the phonological word / poor / occurs twice.

See also

• Recurrence

literature

• Helmut Glück (ed.): Metzler Lexicon Language . Metzler, Stuttgart 2000. ISBN 3-476-01519-X .

Footnotes

1. ↑ Robert-Alain de Beaugrande, Wolfgang Ulrich Dressler: Introduction to text linguistics . Niemeyer, Tübingen 1981. ISBN 3-484-22028-7 . S. 3. (= Concepts of Linguistics and Literature Studies , Vol. 28).