Language is a medium used for communication. The emerging concepts and things occurring at different times usually promote the birth of new words or the death of words, and make the language itself evolving constantly. Many vocabularies are frequently used in life or work and widely disseminated through various media, such as television, newspapers, Internet, and textbooks, etc. Consequently, those words become the commonly used words in the daily language. The investigation result of commonly used words could be reference material not only for language teaching, but also for language research and the compilation of dictionaries, textbooks, language reference books, and teaching materials.
The project will use literature analysis, expert consultation, and practice method for the preliminary study of the investigation of common used words。At first, we will survey and analyze the current status of the structure and workflow of the investigation of commonly used words. And then, we will not only explore more possible applicability of the investigation result but also find out the key points of structure and workflow design that make the result could be referenced for more researches by consulting the experts in various fields. Finally, for validating the feasibility of the proposed structure and workflow, the project will use corpus to implement an investigation of commonly used words.
