[Lexicog] corpus + cognitive linguistics. WAS: Interesting lexical discoveries

[Koontz John E]

On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Peter Kirk wrote:
> This is surely the point. There are different registers of language,
> including journalistic, official/administrative and colloquial. The
> average person can understand several registers but is most used to
> producing one register, the colloquial. And when asked to produce a
> sample sentence, they tend to prefer one from the register they are most
> used to producing.

In effect, journalistic use is what you get if you interview journalists
in a context where they feel constrained produce journalese.  I doubt most
academics replace active verbs with empty verbs and abstract nouns when
interviewed personally, but they sure do when they write ...



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