An Analysis of the Lexical Characteristics in English Abstracts of Chinese Academic Journal Articles: Take Intelligence Journals Articles as an Example

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10.2991/saeme-17.2017.28How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Corpus, lexical characteristics, abstracts, cognition.

Abstract

This paper explores lexical characteristics of abstracts of English research articles (RAs) published in Chinese top academic journals (indexed by CSSCI) through corpus method from the perspectives of lexical complexity, lexical diversity and lexical density. The results showed that Chinese journals abstract had below lexical characteristics: the lexical diversity and lexical density in CAC were lower than EAC, while the lexical complexity of both corpora were similar.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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