Dependency Structures from Syntax to Discourse
A Corpus Study of Journalistic English
- 273 pages
- English
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Dependency Structures from Syntax to Discourse
A Corpus Study of Journalistic English
About this book
Based on the large corpora of journalistic English, this title examines dependency relations and related properties at both syntactic and discourse levels, seeking to unravel the language patterns of real-life usage.
With a focus on rank-frequency distribution, the author investigates the distribution of linguistic properties/units from the perspectives of properties, motifs and sequencings. At the syntactic level, the book analyses the following three dimensions: various combinations of a complete dependency structure, valency and dependency distance. At the discourse level, it proves that the elements can also form dependency relations by exploring (1) the rank-frequency distribution of Rhetorical Structure Theory relations, their motifs, discourse valency and discourse dependency distance; (2) whether there is top-down organisation or an inverted pyramid structure at all the three discourse levels; and (3) whether discourse dependency distances and valencies are lawfully distributed, following the same distribution patterns as those at the syntactic level.
This book will be of great value for scholars and students of quantitative linguistics and computational linguistics and its practical insights will also benefit professionals of language teaching and journalistic writing.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Appendices
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Literature Review and the Present Study
- 3 Diversification Processes and Least Effort Principle
- 4 Research Materials and Methods
- 5 Syntactic Dependency Relations and Related Properties
- 6 Discourse Dependency Relations
- 7 Concluding Remarks
- Acknowledgements
- Appendices
- Author Index
- Subject Index