Metrical characteristics of English columns and comparison with other genres

摘要

English columns, which are assumed to represent social phenomena, were analyzed linguistically. They were also compared with other genres we had already examined. An exponential function with two coefficients b and c was used to extract some features of letter-appearance and word-appearance. It was clearly shown that while the relationship between b and C of the four column materials is expressed with a straight line, various genres including journalism, English textbooks, and literary works make S-letter shapes shown by a multinominal expression. We can conclude from this that English letters are being used in a rather restricted category. Moreover, the multinominal expression educed in this study is also thought to be able to show the letter culture of English speaking areas in metrical terms.