lexicometric analysis

Lexicometry is the quantitative study of the lexicon, using statistical methods, studying a corpus of texts, based mainly on the frequency of use of the words that are part of it.

== History == Lexicometrics arose from the interest of linguists and historians in the emerging computer sciences in the 1950s and 1960s and, from a theoretical point of view, reflects a focus on quantitative approaches in the humanities (in particular, quantitative history ) and research. for collective structures in language, under the influence of structuralism. It developed in the history of France in the 1970s and 1980s, and took its place in the linguistic turn of the human sciences, in particular with the work of Régine Robin and the work of historians such as Antoine Prost, who worked on the vocabulary of electoral proclamations, or medievalists such as Jean-Philippe Genet or Alain Guerreau.