Word Frequencies in Written and Spoken English:, Leech, Rayson, Wil HB..

Taylor & Francis

Word Frequencies in Written and Spoken Englishbased on the British National Corpus\nAuthor(s): Geoffrey Leech, Paul Rayson, Andrew (All Of Lancaster University) Wilson\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138151314, 978-1138151314\nSynopsis\nWord 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 da.