COMPUTER LINGUISTICS AND PRAGMATICS
COMPUTER LINGUISTICS AND PRAGMATICS

Summary/Abstract: The article ‘ComputerLinguistics and Pragmatics’ is linguistic research of every aspect requiring serious preparatory and statistical analysis efforts. In this context perception of the pragmatics includes relation of specialists to the language as well as the applied aspects of linguodidactics or glotodidactics research results. Linguistic statistics methods are used to analyze lexis and terminology in educational book for non-humanitarian subject of general education (Textbook of Physics). It is an important problem of didactics in the aspect of students’ vocabulary development. The investigation aims to determine the frequencies of the used lexis functioning in texts of concrete subject in respect of the language lexical system. The analysis focuses on the educational texts of the Textbook of Physics: in total the texts had 41525 words and their forms. The lexicographically organized vocabulary has only 3050 different words. The iteration index (ratio of the numbers indicating the use of words in the educational texts and size of the dictionary) is 13,6; on average each word repeats 13-14 times. This shows lexical diversity of the texts: the smaller this number, the higher diversity. The comparative linguostatistical analysis is based on the lexical system (frequency use of words) of the Lithuanian, English, Latvian and Russian languages. The results of statistical lexical analysis are presented in four tables and one figure.

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