Comparing the Three Specialized Vocabularies Used in 'Business English,' TOEIC, and British National Corpus Spoken Business Communications
Comparing the Three Specialized Vocabularies Used in 'Business English,' TOEIC, and British National Corpus Spoken Business Communications
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比较“商务英语”、托业考试和英国国家商务口语语料库中使用的三种专业词汇
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2004
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Michael S. Genung
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K. Chujo;Michael S. Genung
本文从以下三个来源收集了三个商务词汇：（1）NHK商务英语节目中使用的教科书;（2）托业考试;（3）英国国家语料库（BNC）商务会议、咨询和面试中的口语数据。在从每个语料库中生成三个词汇表之后，进行了以下四个比较：（1）计算三个词汇表中常用词的百分比;（2）使用对数似然比（LLR）和互信息（MI）等统计方法对从每个语料库中提取的三个专业词汇表进行检查;（3）对每个词汇水平进行评估;（4）计算从初中和高中英语课本中学到的每个词汇中已知单词的百分比。这项研究揭示了有趣的和有益的功能，这三个面向业务的词汇定性和定量。1.背景
This paper describes the differences among three business-oriented vocabularies collected from the following three sources: (1) textbooks used in a radio Business English program—“NHK Business Eigo;” (2) TOEIC practice tests; and (3) British National Corpus (BNC) spoken data taken from business meetings, consultations, and interviews. After generating three word lists from each corpus, the following four comparisons were made: (1) computation of the percentage of common words among the three vocabularies; (2) examination of the three specialized vocabularies extracted from each corpus by use of statistical measures such as log-likelihood ratio (LLR) and mutual information (MI); (3) assessment of each vocabulary level; (4) and calculation of the percentage of known words in each vocabulary learned from English textbooks in junior and senior high schools. This study revealed interesting and beneficial features of the three business-oriented vocabularies both qualitatively and quantitatively. 1. Background