KEYWORDS IN TERMS OF FREQUENCY AND THEMATIC RELEVANCE

The article focuses on the role of keywords, their statistical data for determining thematic dominance when working with large arrays texts. description is based materials a typological linguistic study texts military songs, period 1939-1945, in English and Russian. selection keywords was carried out basis semantic, lexical-syntactic, morphological analysis, taking into account frequency use. using word may not always be defining feature marking it as keyword. Within framework one text, words that help understand sense, unravel its deep meaning, remember content. When combining number texts, by authorship, chronology, thematic, stylistic or other relatedness, matters can serve factor, classification criterion. This paper shows results distribution semantic analysis content correspond to are confirmed machine quantitative indicators frequency. relevant both Russian-language English- language materials.