Word Frequencies in Written and Spoken English - Couverture souple

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

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0582320070 ISBN 13 : 9780582320079

Editeur : Routledge, 2001

Synopsis

 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Geoffrey Leech collaborated in the compilation of the British National Corpus 1991-95 and is a member of the current British National Corpus Committee. A senior figure in the field of linguistics and the English language he has authored, co-authored and co-edited more than 20 books on linguistics and the English language.

Paul Rayson is a research fellow in the Department of Computing, Lancaster University and has written several articles on corpus linguistics.

Andrew Wilson teaches computer corpus linguistics, in the Department of Lingustics and Modern English Language, Lancaster University and has written widely in the area of corpus linguistics.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Word Frequencies in Written and Spoken English is a landmark volume in the development of vocabulary frequency studies. Whereas previous books have in general given frequency information about the written language only, this book provides information on both speech and writing. It 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. The frequencies are derived from a wide ranging and up-to-date corpus of English: the British National Corpus, which was compiled from over 4,000 written texts and spoken transcriptions representing the present day language in the UK. The book is based on a new version of the corpus (available from 2001) providing more accurate grammatical information, which is essential (for example) for distinguishing words like leaves (noun) and leaves (verb) with different meanings. The book begins with a general introduction, explaining why such information is important and highlighting interesting linguistic findings that emerge from the statistical analysis of the British National Corpus vocabulary. It also contains twenty four 'interest boxes' which highlight and comment on different aspects of frequency - for example, the most common colour words in English in order of frequency, and a comparison of male words (e.g. man) and female words (e.g. woman) in terms of their frequency. 
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).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0582320070
• ISBN 13: 9780582320079
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible