Style and vocabulary: numerical studies
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London [u.a.]
Griffin
1970
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| Physical Description: | XIV, 161 Seiten graphische Darstellungen |
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Chapter Page
1 Historical introduction I
2 General problems n
Criteria 13
The course of an investigation 15
Some definitions and conventions 17
3 Some statistical problems 21
Linear and proportional scales 22
Frequency distributions 26
Number and size of samples 29
Consecutive and non-consecutive sampling 32
Diversity: a measure of richness of vocabulary 32
The zero term: unrepresented groups 33
Some definitions 33
4 Word-length and sentence-length 36
Distribution of word-length in different parts of speech 41
Available vocabulary and word-length 48
Nouns in John Bunyan s Life and Death of Mr Badtnan 52
The frequency distribution of lengths of sentences 52
Dialogue and descriptive writing 60
The effect of rhythm on sentence-length 61
5 Problems of vocabulary 64
Vocabulary, usage and parts of speech 68
Consecutive and non-consecutive sampling 72
Pattern of the frequency of usage of different words 76
Nouns in Bunyan s Life and Death of Mr Badman 83
Distribution of nouns in Macaulay s essay on Francis Bacon 84
Rate of increase of vocabulary with increase of sample size 90
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CONTENTS
Chapter Page
6 The measurement of diversity 96
Simpson s Index of Diversity 96
Yule s Characteristic 97
7 Verse, rhyme and rhythm 105
Line and punctuation rhythm in different types of Shakespearean
plays 107
Yardi s Discriminant Function 113
Rhythm in Latin and English hexameter verse 116
Differences in the proportions of different rhythm sequences in
different writers 117
Ranking order in frequency of selection of different rhythmic
patterns 120
English hexameters—Longfellow s Evangeline 121
8 Miscellaneous problems and examples 125
Different approaches to De Imitatione Christi 125
Function words and The Federalist Papers 132
The use of /cat in the Greek Epistles attributed to St Paul 133
Comparison of vocabulary and usage in normal and in Basic
English 135
Comparison of different languages 136
Rare and abundant words 139
Relative frequency of nouns and adjectives 143
Frequency distribution of English nouns according to their initial
letter 144
Greek texts of Gospels relative to size of papyrus sheets 145
9 Comments, summary, and conclusions 147
References 153
Index 159
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