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Publication details [#39328]

Nation, Paul and Karen Wang Ming-Tzu. 2004. Word Meaning in Academic English: Homography in the Academic Word List. Applied Linguistics 25 (3) : 291–314.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

academic language | word meaning

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Oxford University Press

Journal WWW

http://www3.oup.co.uk/applij/contents/

Annotation

This paper investigates the words in the Academic Word List (AWL) to see whether the occurrence of unrelated meanings for the same word form (homographs) has lead to the inclusion of words in the Academic Word List which would not be there if their clearly different meanings were distinguished.