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Publication Date: 1991
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A New Tool for Discourse Analysis: The Vocabulary-Management Profile.
Youmans, Gilbert
Language, v67 n4 p763-89 Dec 1991
Proposes the Vocabulary-Management Profile, a tool for discourse analysis. The number of new words introduced in a moving interval of text 35 words long is counted and a curve created by plotting the number of new words in a successive interval at the midpoint of the interval. Analyses of text by George Orwell and James Joyce are presented. (JL)
Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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