The aim of this document is to discuss the methodological procedures followed in my article: Lima-Lopes, Rodrigo Esteves de. 2020. ‘Football and Web: Lexical Analysis of a Genre through Time’. *Papéis: Revista do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Estudos de Linguagens* - UFMS 24 (47): 150–78. Available at https://seer.ufms.br/index.php/papeis/article/view/9295