Assignment 4 – Annie
The goal of TED Talks is to share some worth spreading ideas around the world.
There are top 20 TED talks data. From the top 20 TED Talks, I used AntConc to
generate several keywords and compare to British National Corpus spoken frequency
list. Here are some keywords that worth more discussion and interpretation.
Frequency
Keyness
Keyword
Talks
1
136
164.59
world
14 out of 20
2
80
93.615
brain
13 out of 20
3
59
67.209
believe
11 out of 20
4
53
59.704
change
11 out of 20
5
51
57.207
better
13 out of 20
6
50
55.96
human
14 out of 20
The common field of the top 20 TED Talks is about psychology. In addition, the
speakers of TED Talks usually persuade people to think positive, believe ourselves
and change for a better life. As a result, some keywords such as brain, believe, change
and better are often seen in the videos. Moreover, the speakers give some examples or
state the truths in the world , therefore, world is another keyword in the frequency list.
The topics of top 20 videos are often about human beings, so human is one of the
frequency keywords.
To sum up, these top 20 TED Talks are inspirational to people. Imporoving our
life and being confidence in ourself are the common beliefs of the videos.