English General Nouns: A corpus theoretical approachJohn Benjamins Publishing, 14. 12. 2005 - Počet stran: 206 This book proposes an innovative approach to general nouns. General nouns are defined as high-frequency nouns that are characterised by their textual functions. Although the concept is motivated by Halliday & Hasan (1976), the corpus theoretical approach adopted in the present study is fundamentally different and set in a linguistic framework that prioritises lexis. The study investigates 20 nouns that are very frequent in mainstream English, as represented by the Bank of English Corpus. The corpus-driven approach to the data involves a critical discussion of descriptive tools, such as patterns, semantic prosodies, and primings of lexical items, and the concept of 'local textual functions' is put forward to characterise the functions of the nouns in texts. The study not only suggests a characterisation of general nouns, but also stresses that functions of lexical items and properties of texts are closely linked. This link requires new ways of describing language. |
Obsah
1 | |
5 | |
13 | |
Minimal assumptions in practice | 41 |
Time nouns | 63 |
People nouns | 99 |
World nouns | 141 |
Reexamining the minimal assumptions | 161 |
Developing the corpus linguistic theory | 179 |
Appendix 1 | 195 |
Appendix 2 | 196 |
References | 197 |
205 | |
The series Studies in Corpus Linguistics | 207 |
Další vydání - Zobrazit všechny
Běžně se vyskytující výrazy a sousloví
£ 100 concordance lines adjective anaphoric arguments aspects Bank of English basis Biber budge characterising function collocation concordance analysis continuity function corpora corpus data corpus linguistic corpus study corpus theoretical approach corpus-driven approach defined describe descriptive tools detailed difficult discourse discourse community discussion distinctions elements evaluative meanings expressions family family family find finding first flexible grammar focus Francis frequency lists fulfils function words functional groups generalisations Halliday Hasan Hoey Hoey’s Hunston identified illustrate instance interpretation language lexical items meaning and form minimal assumptions modifiers narrow contexts noun phrases occur Pattern Grammar play present chapter present study reference reflected regard relationship residual meanings role Section semantic prosody similar Sinclair singular social specific stress syntactic Teubert text organisation textual functions textual patterns theory tion typical verb WOI‘I‘LQII WOI‘I‘LQII WOI‘I‘LQII woman woman woman women women women word class words in texts world nouns