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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
