Word Frequencies in Written and Spoken English by Wilson

Word Frequencies in Written and Spoken English by Wilson

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Provides information on both speech and writing. This book not only gives information about the language as a whole, but also about the differences between spoken and written English, and between different spoken and written varieties of the language. It also contains 'interest boxes' which highlight and comment on different aspects of frequency.

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Word Frequencies in Written and Spoken English by Wilson

Books of English word frequencies have in the past suffered from severe limitations of sample size and breadth. They have also tended to be restricted to word forms alone. Most importantly, almost all have dealt only with written language. This book overcomes these limitations. It is derived from the British National Corpus - a 100,000,000 word electronic databank sampled from the whole range of present-day English, spoken and written - and makes use of the grammatical information that has been added to each word in the corpus.

'For corpus linguists, this book is of paramount importance for analysing and establishing the saliency of lexical items with a comparative corpus, such as journalistic or scientific English'

Lexicos 15, Afrilex Series 15: 2005

GEOFFREY LEECH is Emeritus Professor of English Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University, UK.

MARGARET DEUCHAR is Reader in Linguistics at the University of Wales, Bangor, UK.

ROBERT HOOGENRAAD is Language Region Project Officer, Indigenous Education Division, NT Department of Education, Employment and Training, Australia.

SKU Non disponible
ISBN 13 9780582320079
ISBN 10 0582320070
Titre Word Frequencies in Written and Spoken English
Auteur Wilson
État Non disponible
Type de reliure Paperback
Éditeur Taylor & Francis Ltd
Année de publication 2001-08-01
Nombre de pages 320
Note de couverture La photo du livre est présentée à titre d'illustration uniquement. La reliure, la couverture ou l'édition réelle peuvent varier.
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