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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?

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Noun PhrasesPronouns

Figure 4.2

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= the + nounReasons

the language of conversatio

n is different from the

language of writing

Figure 4.3

= teacher’s book teachers’ books

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Noun types

based on meaning

Figure 4.4

End Weight

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“Genitive constructions are generally short.” (p. 84) What?

“genitive construction” = teacher’s or teachers’

Possessive NPs are often not very long.

Figure 4.5

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Of-phrase lots more frequent than possessive noun phrase!!

Figure 4.6

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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

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