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TEXT ANALYSIS OF THE OFFICIAL BRITISH DOCUMENT ADDRESSING THE PUBLIC (BASED ON THE OFFICIAL DEPARTMENTAL WEB SITES)

Anna Kostina

First published: 2014https://doi.org/10.5593/sgemsocial2014/B12/S2.113View metrics

Abstract

The research aims at finding certain tendencies to language simplification in modern British society focusing on the changes in the official functional style (register). Lexical and syntactic peculiarities of the official document texts produced by three British social departments (Government Equalities Office, which is part of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport; Department of Health; Department for Education) are analyzed in the work. In order to evaluate the complexity of grammar in the texts addressing the public and professional audience the following quantitative method was developed. It measures the number of auxiliary, notional and the general number of words in the sentences. It is assumed that there is a statistical correlation between the number of auxiliary words and the complexity of the sentence structure. Besides, a semantic analysis of lexical units showed that whenever possible a more neutral or informal word is used to present a notion in the texts addressing the public.

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Title
TEXT ANALYSIS OF THE OFFICIAL BRITISH DOCUMENT ADDRESSING THE PUBLIC (BASED ON THE OFFICIAL DEPARTMENTAL WEB SITES)
Authors
Anna Kostina
Proceedings
Proceedings of 1st International Multidisciplinary Scientific Conference on Social Sciences and Arts SGEM2014
Publisher
STEF92 Technology
Year
2014
Pages
885-890
SWS Citekey
Kostina20142885890
ISSN
2367-5659
ISBN
978-619-7105-23-0
Language
en
Publication type
Proceedings Paper
Keywords
quantitative linguisticsofficial functional stylelanguage simplification
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