Similarities and Differences Between Cause, Reason, Factor, Effect, Consequence, and Result Student’s Name: Salvucci

MicaelaTeacher’s Name: Musseta MarianaSubject: Language IDate: July 30th

UTN- Facultad Regional Villa María-

If we consult monolingual dictionaries this is what we may find:

Cause

(“Cause.” Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.)

(“Cause.” WordReference.com.)

Reason

(“Reason.” Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.)

(“Reason.” WordReference.com.)

Factor

(“Factor.” Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.)

(“Factor.” WordReference.com.)

Effect

(“Effect.” Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.)

(“Effect.” WordReference.com.)

Consequence

(“Consequence.” Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.)

(“Consequence.” WordReference.com.)

Result

(“Result.” Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.)

(“Result.” WordReference.com.)

For this presentation I chose to scan two different corpora, Brown + BNC Written (2+m) and BNC Spoken (consisting of 1 million and 2+ million words respectively). I am going to show you some examples of how these words are used in written and spoken English.

  “…an existentialist is a man who perceives himself only as "esse", as existence without substance.     Thus human perception and human volition is the immanent cause of all social change and this most truly when the change reaches the civilizational level.     Thus with regard to the loss of tradition, in the change from order to disorder the metaphysics of change works itself out as a disruption of the individual soul…” (Lextutor Concordancer, Brown + BNC Written (2 + m).)

“…again, there are very many over-valued ideas about weight and what that means to the individual and a pre-occupation with weight. I believe that the root cause of anorexia and people who binge and in fact, they are failed anorexics really!”  (Lextutor Concordancer, BNC Spoken.)

“…he said, "I see open faces.   People aren't frightened. I feel at ease-- much better than I did then. The immediate reason for his return is to give two charity concerts with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra this weekend for the victims of last year's

Armenian earthquake…” …” (Lextutor Concordancer, Brown + BNC Written (2 + m).)

“…the second er reason which he gave me, of course I should have thought for myself, he said, but the accountants more accurately represented the human form than did the rats, so that was a clear one to him, but it was the third one that really floored me…” (Lextutor Concordancer, BNC Spoken.)

”…another factor that may hold hope is for parallel recognition is, as one man says it "... that the fad for educating top people along managerial lines is yielding to the technically trained approach".     SENIOR STAFF ENGINEER?…”(Lextutor Concordancer, Brown + BNC Written (2 + m).)

 ”…another very important factor was that at the Boat Show the R Y A announced that it was taking responsibility for the national coordination of all activities er for sailors with special needs, that's blind, deaf, disabled …” (Lextutor Concordancer, BNC Spoken.)

“…the first group remained unmoved, the second group were more aggressive and the third group even more so, proving the influence of aggressive acts on young children. This suggests that violent television programmes have an effect on children. What is also interesting is the way that stereotypes are portrayed on TV with the males being strong, sometimes violent…” (Lextutor Concordancer, Brown + BNC Written (2 + m).)

“…how can you be sure that any future development of these sites would not have a deleterious effect on the conservation area, the listed buildings, the archaeology and the natural history?...” (Lextutor Concordancer, BNC Spoken.

“…the repeated efforts in Christian history to describe death as altogether the consequence of human sin show that these two aspects of death cannot be separated…” (Lextutor Concordancer, BNC Spoken.)

“… "mimesis" in its Christian rather than its classic implications and to discover in the concrete forms of both art and myth powers of theological expression which, as in the Christian mind, are the direct consequence of involvement in historical experience, which are not reserved, as in the Greek mind, only to moments of theoretical reflection…” (Lextutor Concordancer, Brown + BNC Written (2 + m).)

“…the conclusions of a number of pre- revolutionary and Soviet historians that the enhanced rate of peasant flight to Siberia in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries was the direct result of the increasing burdens of the serf- owning economy and of Peter's oppressive fiscal policies, military recruitment, foreign wars …” (Lextutor Concordancer, Brown + BNC Written (2 + m).) “…what I S O Nine Thousand and One is the result of the investigation that the American space scientists did in nineteen fifty nine, to find out what areas management are weak in…” (Lextutor Concordancer, BNC Spoken.)

Conclusions

Works Cited

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English. Updated Edition.Web. July 27th.

WordReference.com. Web. July 27th.

Concordance concept by Chris Greaves, HK Polytechnic. Lextutor Concordancer. V.6.5.Web. July 29th.

Works Consulted CodyScape. Difference Between.com. 2010. Web.

July 27th.