5.3.1 Defining the features

The case study is based on the underlying assumption that differences in word length and sentence length can be associated with oral and literate differences in English, meaning that texts exhibiting longer words and sentences are likely to fulfill a different communicative function than texts with shorter ones. The former are typically associated with a more informational, elaborated, abstract style, while the latter are a more common indication of an involved, situation-dependent, non-abstract style.

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