A corpus-based study of the language used in book reviews by Renata Frosztęga PDF

By Renata Frosztęga

ISBN-10: 3656986940

ISBN-13: 9783656986942

Bachelor Thesis from the yr 2014 within the topic Speech technological know-how / Linguistics, grade: five, , language: English, summary: the purpose of this thesis is to debate convinced points of the language of e-book stories, stressing the significance and indispensability of a corpus-based procedure in any research of this kind. The thesis is to teach that the check in of publication reviewing is a really good language, characterised via particular vocabulary. via this is often intended that there exist a few phrases and words which are typically used extra usually the following than in different registers, or that a few phrases have a unique, narrowed meaning.

For this goal the researcher has compiled her personal corpus of ebook reports in an digital shape, which gives the basis for the research. This selection of written language samples is often called the home made e-book evaluate Corpus (henceforth, DIY BRC). As regards the resource of fabrics, the studies come from the internet sites of well known caliber newspapers.

In order to make sure the learn a comparatively excessive reliability, the linguistic facts should be as huge as attainable. consequently, my corpus (DIY BRC) totals nearly one hundred fifteen 000 phrases derived from as many as 166 publication studies. The suggest pattern measurement is among 660 and 982 words.

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