Beware the range in RANGE, and the academic in AWL

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2011-12-01

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Neufeld, Steve
Hancioglu, Nilgun
Eldridge, John

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This article examines a recent example of published research on the vocabulary profile of a financial corpus based on the Academic Word List (AWL) to illustrate not only the erroneous output from vocabulary profiling tools but also the pitfalls of using the AWL as a filter for academic lexis.

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Range, Antconc, Bespoke corpora, Corpus analysis, Word frequency, Vocabulary profiling, Awl, Academic word list, Academic texts

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/66394

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SYSTEM

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.system.2011.10.010

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Education and Humanities, Article

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S. Neufeld, N. Hancioglu, and J. Eldridge, “Beware the range in RANGE, and the academic in AWL,” SYSTEM, pp. 533–538, 2011, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/66394.