The Use of Words in Context: The Vocabulary of College Students
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Abstract
Section 1. Some Milestones in Tallies of American English Vocabularies.- Section 2. The Present Sample: A Comparison of Classroom Vocabularies of 1943-45 and 1979-81.- Section 3. Further Clues Held by Samples of Vocabularies.- Section 4. Samples of the Vocabularies of Black and White Students in Classroom Speaking.- Section 5. An Application of a Vocabulary Tally.- Appendix I. The Vocabularies of Students' Speeches of 1943-45 and 1979-81, Arranged Alphabetically, and the Number of Occurrences of Each Word.- Appendix II. The Words of a Subsample of Recent Speeches of Appendix I and an Equal Sample of Words from Orations of College Students, Delivered at Least 50 Years Earlier.- Appendix III. Words Used in Eight Hours of Classroom Speeches of Students in Predominantly Black Colleges and in Eight Hours of Speeches in a Predominantly White College, and the Number of Occurrences of Each Word.- References.