这些统计数字本身并无多少新奇之处。但是另一个发现却引起了语言学家和文学研究者较大的关注,即:在不同的文体中,这些最普通的词的使用频率变化极大。分别对每种文体的词的出现频率所进行的研究表明:在这十五种文体中,the的使用频率在其中的十种文体中占第二位;and在四种文体中占第二位;to在一种文体中居第二位。更为有趣的是,报道性文体(informative prose)中(如:报刊 There is not much novelty about these statistics themselves. Yet another finding has drawn the greater concern of linguists and literary researchers that the frequency of use of these most common words varies greatly among different genres. The research on the frequency of appearance of each type of stylistic word shows that in the fifteen genres, the frequency of the use occupies the second place among the ten genres; and the second among the four genres To be second in one style. Even more interesting is that in informative prose (eg newspapers