Geoffrey Leech, Paul Rayson, Andrew Wilson (All Of Lancaster University)

Word Frequencies in Written and Spoken English (eBook, PDF)

based on the British National Corpus

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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. Based on the new version of the British National Corpus, this is an up-to-date examination of word frequencies in English. Its distinct approach covers both speech and writing, and provides information about the differences between spoken and written English and between the different varieties of language.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317882053
• Artikelnr.: 41067106

Autorenporträt

Geoffrey Leech

is Research Professor in English Linguistics at Lancaster University. He is the author, co-author or co-editor of more than 20 books (most of them published by Longman) on Linguistics and the English Language.
Paul Rayson is a Research Fellow in the Department of Computing, Lancaster University and has extensive experience of statistical corpus analysis and corpus annotation.
Andrew Wilson is a Lecturer in Computer Corpus Linguistics at Lancaster University. He has been involved in corpus research since 1990 and has written several books, including Corpus Linguistics (1996, co-authored with Tony McEnery).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1 Frequency in the Whole Corpus (Spoken and Written English)
Chapter 2 Spoken and Written English
Chapter 3 Two Main Varieties of Spoken English Compared
Chapter 4 Two Main Varieties of Writen English Compared
Chapter 5 Rank Frequency Lists of Words within Word Classes (Parts of Speech)
Chapter 6 Frequency Lists of Grammatical Word Classes (based on the Sampler Corpus)