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1. Corpus-Based Contrastive Studies of English and Chinese

   By Tony McEnery, Richard Xiao

   Series: Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics

   This book is concerned with cross-linguistic contrast of major grammatical categories in English and Chinese, two most important yet genetically different world languages. This genetic difference has resulted in many subsidiary differences that are, among other things, related to grammar. Compared...

   Published June 7th 2010 by Routledge
2. Swearing in English

   Bad Language, Purity and Power from 1586 to the Present

   By Tony McEnery

   Series: Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics

   Do men use bad language more than women? How do social class and the use of bad language interact? Do young speakers use bad language more frequently than older speakers? Using the spoken section of the British National Corpus, Swearing in English explores questions such as these and considers at...

   Published September 17th 2009 by Routledge
3. A Frequency Dictionary of Mandarin Chinese

   Core Vocabulary for Learners

   By Richard Xiao, Paul Rayson, Tony McEnery

   Series: Routledge Frequency Dictionaries

   A Frequency Dictionary of Mandarin Chinese is an invaluable tool for all learners of Mandarin Chinese, providing a list of the 5,000 words and the 2,000 Chinese characters (simplified) most commonly used in the language. Based on a fifty-million-word corpus composed of spoken, fiction,...

   Published February 26th 2009 by Routledge