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Signalling nouns in English : A corpus-based discourse approach
- Title
- Signalling nouns in English : A corpus-based discourse approach / John Flowerdew (City University of Hong Kong), Richard W. Forest (Central Michigan University).
- Author
- Flowerdew, John
- Publication
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
- ©2015
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- Additional Authors
- Forest, Richard
- Description
- xviii, 286 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Signalling nouns (SNs) are abstract nouns like problem, result, idea, and fact which are non-specific in their meaning when considered in isolation and specific in their meaning by reference to their linguistic context. SNs contribute to cohesion and evaluation in discourse. This work offers the first book length treatment of the SN phenomenon to treat the functional and discourse features of the category as primary. Using a balanced corpus of authentic data, the book explores the lexicogrammatical and discourse features of SNs in academic journal articles, textbooks, and lectures across a range of disciplines in the natural and social sciences. The book will be essential reading for researchers and advanced students of semantics, syntax, corpus linguistics and discourse analysis, in addition to scholars and teachers in the field of English for Academic Purposes"--
- Series Statement
- Studies in English language
- Uniform Title
- Studies in English language.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 280-283) and index.
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction; 2. Grammatical features of signalling nouns; 3. Semantic features; 4. Discourse features; 5. Criteria for determining what constitutes a signalling noun in this study; 6. Corpus, methodology, annotation system, and reporting of the data; 7. Set of examples; 8. Overview of signalling noun distributions in the corpus; 9. Overview of semantic categories; 10. Overview of lexicogrammatical and discourse pattern frequencies; 11. Conclusion; References; Appendix A. The overall structure of the corpus; Appendix B. List of texts that make up the corpus; Appendix C. Lemmatised SNs in descending order according to normalised frequency; Appendix D. Non-lemmatised SNs in descending order according to normalised frequency; Appendix E. Lemmatised SNs in alphabetical order; Appendix F. Non-lemmatised SNs in alphabetical order; Appendix G. Frequency of SNs in different semantic categories.
- Call Number
- JFE 15-1532
- ISBN
- 9781107022119 (hardback)
- 1107022118 (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2014018778
- OCLC
- 903193735
- Author
- Flowerdew, John, author.
- Title
- Signalling nouns in English : A corpus-based discourse approach / John Flowerdew (City University of Hong Kong), Richard W. Forest (Central Michigan University).
- Publisher
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
- Copyright Date
- ©2015
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Studies in English languageStudies in English language.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 280-283) and index.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Forest, Richard, author.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 15-1532