1st Edition

A Frequency Dictionary of British English Core Vocabulary and Exercises for Learners

By Vaclav Brezina, Dana Gablasova Copyright 2024
352 Pages 64 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

352 Pages 64 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

352 Pages 64 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

A Frequency Dictionary of British English provides information about the frequency and distribution of words in British English. The dictionary presents rich information about word frequencies and distributions in an accessible manner. In addition to textual and numerical information, the dictionary offers a range of visualisations to help understand the statistical properties of words. These... Read more

Series preface

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Introduction

Frequency wordlist

Alphabetical wordlist

Frequency wordlist according to word classes

New General Service List (New GSL)

Vocabulary exercises

Biography

Vaclav Brezina is Professor of Corpus Linguistics at Lancaster University

Dana Gablasova is Senior Lecturer at Lancaster University

"If you want to know how frequently words are used in different contexts across speech and writing and with what other words these are associated, you might be interested in a new dictionary ... This dictionary is based on the British National Corpus 2014, a large balanced dataset developed at Lancaster University that represents current British English usage. The dictionary will appeal to those interested in British English for research, as well as for the purposes of language learning and teaching. For students and teachers in particular, this dictionary offers a wide range of exercises to activate vocabulary knowledge ... The dictionary is accompanied by a website Lancslex that allows active engagement with frequency and distribution information about words in British English. The website’s user-friendly interface facilitates effortless word searches and text analysis for examining lexical sophistication."

- Words, words, words: A new Frequency Dictionary of British English, CASS, ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science