商务英语与英语语言学词汇密度特征研究——一项基于语料库的研究

Study on Characteristics of Lexical Density in Business English and English Linguistics—A Corpus-Based Study

摘要: 本文自建商务英语文本及英语语言学文本小型语料库，利用语料库分析软件Antconc，从词汇密度和词频两个角度，在两类语料库中进行词汇对比。研究表明：商务英语的词汇密度低于英语语言学词汇密度，其语篇难度小于英语语言学；由于商务英语和英语语言学文本中专业词汇较多，商务英语和英语语言学语料库的高频词中共有的词汇主要是功能词，实义词较少；而只出现在商务英语语料库中的高频词均为实义词，且与商务交易、商务活动等相关，但只出现在英语语言学语料库中的高频词均与语义学、语用学等语言学层面有关。

Abstract: By means of analysis software Antconc, this paper conducted a comparative study in terms of lexical density and high-frequency words from self-built small corpus of business English text and linguistics text. The results show that the lexical density of business English is lower than that of linguistics, and the difficulty of discourse in business English is lower than that of linguistics. Due to the large number of professional words in business English and linguistic texts, the common words of high frequency words in business English and linguistic corpora are mainly function words, while content words are few. The high-frequency words that only appear in the business English corpus are content words and related to business transactions and business activities, while the high-frequency words that only appear in linguistic corpus are related to semantics, pragmatics and other linguistic aspects.