Language and Culture of the Text - Essay Example

The noun with the third most repetition is ‘ways’ which appears 15 times, being 5.7% of the total noun count. The total number of nouns is comprised of 88 different terms. There are a total of 97 adjectives comprised of 43 different terms found within this text which represents 15% of the entire text. The three adjectives showing most use are ‘cultural’ which was repeated 14 times, ‘social’ which was repeated 8 times, and ‘linguistic’ with a repetition of 7.

A total of 38 verbs are evident within this same text, representing only 5.9% of the total word count; these 38 verbs included 25 different terms with the most widely used verb being ‘to speak’ (speak/is spoken). As would be expected within a text discussing language and culture the most often replicated utterances were in reference to the topic and included ‘language’ and ‘culture’ (nouns), ‘cultural’ and ‘linguistic’ (adjectives), and the verb ‘to speak’.

A total number of 385 words make up this text (policy on climate change) which includes 70 nouns, accounting for 18% of the text. Within the score of 70 nouns, there are 48 different terms, with the most often used nouns being ‘greenhouse gas’, ‘atmosphere’, and ‘warming’ which were all used 4 times. A particular occurrence in this text is the use of chemical terms such as ‘GtC’ and ‘GtCO2 ’. A total number of 583 words make up this formal text comprised of 140 different terms which make up 24.

5% of the total text. The word ‘shall’ appears 28 times and although not, in reality, a term is frequently used in such legal documents. Another feature is the use of ‘thereof’ and ‘herein’ which are also evident in legal documents such as this, together with a few other formal/legal terms such as the verbs ‘vested’.