Carlson D M
Matsumoto Dental University, Nagano, Japan.
J Dent Educ. 2000 Apr;64(4):283-93.
This article begins by presenting corpus linguistics and explaining how the corpus approach to language analysis can be used to investigate the language of dentistry. It then reports findings from an analysis that was carried out with readily available software and a corpus of 1,400 dental research abstracts. Included is information about word frequency in dental abstracts and also about how certain words tend to co-occur in sentences and form regular patterns. The article concludes with a discussion of ways that corpus-based findings can be applied to the teaching of English to non-native speakers of the language, many of whom will need English skills for their future careers in dentistry.
本文开篇介绍语料库语言学，并解释如何运用语料库方法进行语言分析来研究牙科领域的语言。接着报告了一项分析的结果，该分析使用了易于获取的软件和一个包含1400篇牙科研究摘要的语料库。其中包括牙科摘要中的词频信息，以及某些词汇在句子中倾向于共同出现并形成规律模式的相关信息。文章最后讨论了基于语料库的研究结果应用于非英语母语者英语教学的方式，这些人中的许多人在未来的牙科职业生涯中将需要英语技能。
