Signalling Nouns in English
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Signalling Nouns in English

A Corpus-Based Discourse Approach

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eBook - PDF

Signalling Nouns in English

A Corpus-Based Discourse Approach

About this book

Signalling nouns (SNs) are abstract nouns like 'fact', 'idea', 'problem' and 'result', 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 study 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.

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Yes, you can access Signalling Nouns in English by John Flowerdew,Richard W. Forest in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & Linguistics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Series page
  4. Title page
  5. Copyright page
  6. Contents
  7. Tables
  8. Acknowledgements (John Flowerdew)
  9. Acknowledgements (Rich Forest)
  10. Chapter 1 Introduction
  11. Chapter 2 Grammatical features of signalling nouns
  12. Chapter 3 Semantic features
  13. Chapter 4 Discourse features
  14. Chapter 5 Criteria for determining what constitutes a signalling noun in this study
  15. Chapter 6 Corpus, methodology, annotation system, and reporting of the data
  16. Chapter 7 Set of examples
  17. Chapter 8 Overview of signalling noun distributions in the corpus
  18. Chapter 9 Overview of semantic categories
  19. Chapter 10 Overview of lexicogrammatical and discourse pattern frequencies
  20. Chapter 11 Conclusion
  21. Appendix A The overall structure of the corpus
  22. Appendix B List of files that make up the corpus
  23. Appendix C Lemmatised SNs in descending order according to normalised frequency
  24. Appendix D Non-lemmatised SNs in descending order according to normalised frequency
  25. Appendix E Lemmatised SNs in alphabetical order
  26. Appendix F Non-lemmatised SNs in alphabetical order
  27. Appendix G Frequency of SNs in different semantic categories
  28. References
  29. Index