Occupation and Language Studies: Nelson Flashcards

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What did Nelson study?

A

Business Language

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What did Nelson compare the corpus of business language he acquired with?

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British National Corpus

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What is the British National Corpus?

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The corpus showing the common words which people will be more likely to use every day

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What was found in the ‘semantic field of business’ Nelson created in terms of the purpose of words used?

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Most words used were to do with the business or money or meetings

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What did Nelson find there was very little of in conversation topics in the business?

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Few conversations about personal lives or activities outside of the business

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What type of emotions were never conveyed in the business lexis?

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There were no profound emotions conveyed

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What specific words were never present in business lexis at all?

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Town, Village, County

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What location words were present in business lexis?

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Department,

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How often did the word “truth” appear in comparison to the British National Corpus?

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9 times less frequently

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