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Nominal versus Clausal Complexity in Spoken and Written English - Theory and Description (Paperback, New edition)
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Nominal versus Clausal Complexity in Spoken and Written English - Theory and Description (Paperback, New edition)
Series: English Corpus Linguistics, 8
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Halliday has claimed that neither spoken nor written language is
more complex than the other per se, but that the two mediums show
different degrees of complexity on different levels. He argues that
written language uses more lexical items within the clause whereas
spoken language uses more clauses within the clause complex. Thus,
written language should use more complex noun phrases and spoken
language should use more complex clause complexes. The aim of the
study was to conduct a corpus-based study to analyse spoken and
written language samples with regard to differences in complexity
on the level of noun phrases and clause complexes. With the help of
this study it was possible to refute Halliday's thesis as the data
show that both noun phrases and clause complexes are more complex
in the language samples under scrutiny.
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