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Chapter 4: Corpus Insights: Frequency and Formulaic Language

Chapter 4: Corpus Insights: Frequency and Formulaic Language

pp. 75-111

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, University of Nottingham, , Nottingham Trent University
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Summary

Chapter 4 discusses corpus linguistics and how electronic corpora have informed vocabulary studies. The main insights have been in the areas of frequency and phraseology. The chapter includes an extended discussion of formulaic language, which has been shown to be a major component of vocabulary knowledge.

Keywords

  • corpora
  • frequency
  • high-frequency vocabulary
  • mid-frequency vocabulary
  • low-frequency vocabulary
  • formulaic language
  • formulaic sequences
  • concordance

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