Does anyone have or know of a fiction word list, similar in concept to
Coxhead's academic word list?
<http://www.vuw.ac.nz/lals/research/awl/info.html <http://www.vuw.ac.nz/lals/research/awl/info.html> >
You might try my "Variation in English Words and Phrases" (VIEW) site: http://view.byu.edu
This interface to the 100m word British National Corpus allows you to specify a "macro" register (e.g. fiction) or even a more narrow register (like drame or poetry or prose) and then look for the top 3000 words in that register (just use * ), or narrow by part of speech (e.g. [vvi] or [nn*]) or phrase (e.g. the * in).
You can also use fuzzy matches, WordNet-based queries, and comparison of synonyms/antonyms -- usually with just one simply query.
Any questions, please feel free to email me.
Mark Davies
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Mark Davies
Assoc. Prof., Linguistics
Brigham Young University
(phone) 801-422-9168 / (fax) 801-422-0906
http://davies-linguistics.byu.edu
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