Paul Rayson: 3 books
Word Frequencies in Written and Spoken English
based on the British National Corpus
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Word Frequencies in Written and Spoken Englishis 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...
A Frequency Dictionary of Mandarin Chinese
Core Vocabulary for Learners
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
A Frequency Dictionary of Mandarin Chinese is an invaluable tool for all learners of Mandarin Chinese, providing a list of the 5,000 words and the 2,000 Chinese characters (simplified) most commonly used in the language. Based on a fifty-million-word corpus composed of spoken, fiction, non-fiction...
Metaphor, Cancer and the End of Life
A Corpus-Based Study
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
This book presents the methodology, findings and implications of a large-scale corpus-based study of the metaphors used to talk about cancer and the end of life (including care at the end of life) in the UK. It focuses on metaphor as a central linguistic and cognitive tool that is frequently used...