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Chapter 4 Visible Data. Learning more about registers. Figure 4.1. Things to Figure Out Frequency of articles in each register type Frequency across registers…how registers are alike or different Reasons for the frequencies: why are there so many uses of the in academic writing?. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Learning more about registersLearning more about registers
Figure 4.1
Things to Figure Out
• Frequency of articles in each register type
• Frequency across registers…how registers are alike or different
• Reasons for the frequencies: why are there so many uses of the in academic writing?
What our authors say
Noun PhrasesPronouns
Figure 4.2
What our authors say
= the + nounReasons
the language of conversatio
n is different from the
language of writing
Figure 4.3
= teacher’s book teachers’ books
What our authors
say
Noun types
based on meaning
Figure 4.4
End Weight
What our authors
say
“Genitive constructions are generally short.” (p. 84) What?
“genitive construction” = teacher’s or teachers’
Possessive NPs are often not very long.
Figure 4.5
What our authors
say
Of-phrase lots more frequent than possessive noun phrase!!
Figure 4.6
What our authors say
Figure 4.7
300,000 nouns & pronouns
per 1,000,000
words
More pronouns
than nouns
300,000+ nouns &
pronouns per 1,000,000
words
Many more nouns than pronouns
What our authors say