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Abstract EN

This study n an attempt to analyze the literary criticism technical term ’key-words* which is wide-spread in.

modern and applied critical studies.

The first part of the study defines the concept’ key-words’ in light of modern critical studies with an eye on the contrast between the semantic and the statistical approaches.

It is concluded that the statistical approach relies on theoretical criticism, whereas the semantic approach is shaped on the basis of stylistico-semantic approach.

The second part investigates critical procedures adhering to key-words since these procedures have been used as me'ans to identify key-words in a text or in oeuvre of a certain creative writer.

In the third part, the paper presents models of applied studies that either relied on the concept of key-words in analyzing creative texts or benefited from that concept.