Lexical Cohesion and Corpus Linguistics

Lexical Cohesion and Corpus Linguistics

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  • Author: John Flowerdew
  • Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
  • ISBN: 9027289719
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 133

Lexical cohesion is about meaning in text. It concerns the ways in which lexical items relate to each other and to other cohesive devices so that textual continuity is created. Traditionally, lexical cohesion (along with other types of cohesion) has been investigated in individual texts. With the advent of corpus techniques, however, there is potential to investigate lexical cohesion with reference to large corpora. This collection of papers illustrates a variety of corpus approaches to lexical cohesion. Contributions deal with lexical cohesion in relation to rhetorical structure, lexical bundles and discourse signalling, discourse intonation, semantic prosody, use of signalling nouns, and corpus linguistic theory. The volume also considers implications that innovative approaches to lexical cohesion can have for language teaching. This volume was originally published as a Special Issue of International Journal of Corpus Linguistics volume 11:3 (2006).


Collaborating Towards Coherence

Collaborating Towards Coherence

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  • Author: Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen
  • Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
  • ISBN: 9027253897
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 207

This book approaches cohesion and coherence from a perspective of interaction and collaboration. After a detailed account of various models of cohesion and coherence, the book suggests that it is fruitful to regard cohesion as contributing to coherence, as a strategy used by communicators to help their fellow communicators create coherence from a text. Throughout the book, the context-sensitive and discourse-specific nature of cohesion is stressed: cohesive relations are created and interpreted in particular texts in particular contexts. By investigating the use of cohesion in four different types of discourse, the study shows that cohesion is not uniform across discourse types. The analysis reveals that written dialogue (computer-mediated discussions) and spoken monologue (prepared speech) make use of similar cohesive strategies as spoken dialogue (conversations): in these contexts the communicators' interaction with their fellow communicators leads to a similar outcome. The book suggests that this is an indication of the communicators' attempt to collaborate towards successful communication.


Cohesion, Coherence and Temporal Reference from an Experimental Corpus Pragmatics Perspective

Cohesion, Coherence and Temporal Reference from an Experimental Corpus Pragmatics Perspective

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  • Author: Cristina Grisot
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 3319967525
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 340

This open access book provides new methodological and theoretical insights into temporal reference and its linguistic expression, from a cross-linguistic experimental corpus pragmatics approach. Verbal tenses, in general, and more specifically the categories of tense, grammatical and lexical aspect are treated as cohesion ties contributing to the temporal coherence of a discourse, as well as to the cognitive temporal coherence of the mental representations built in the language comprehension process. As such, it investigates the phenomenon of temporal reference at the interface between corpus linguistics, theoretical linguistics and pragmatics, experimental pragmatics, psycholinguistics, natural language processing and machine translation.


New perspectives on cohesion and coherence

New perspectives on cohesion and coherence

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  • Author: Katrin Menzel
  • Publisher: Language Science Press
  • ISBN: 3946234720
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 167

The contributions to this volume investigate relations of cohesion and coherence as well as instantiations of discourse phenomena and their interaction with information structure in multilingual contexts. Some contributions concentrate on procedures to analyze cohesion and coherence from a corpus-linguistic perspective. Others have a particular focus on textual cohesion in parallel corpora that include both originals and translated texts. Additionally, the papers in the volume discuss the nature of cohesion and coherence with implications for human and machine translation. The contributors are experts on discourse phenomena and textuality who address these issues from an empirical perspective. The chapters in this volume are grounded in the latest research making this book useful to both experts of discourse studies and computational linguistics, as well as advanced students with an interest in these disciplines. We hope that this volume will serve as a catalyst to other researchers and will facilitate further advances in the development of cost-effective annotation procedures, the application of statistical techniques for the analysis of linguistic phenomena and the elaboration of new methods for data interpretation in multilingual corpus linguistics and machine translation.


Cohesion in literary texts

Cohesion in literary texts

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  • Author: Waldemar Gutwinski
  • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
  • ISBN: 311135217X
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 185


Lexical Cohesion and Corpus Linguistics

Lexical Cohesion and Corpus Linguistics

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  • Author: John Flowerdew
  • Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
  • ISBN: 9027222479
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 131

Lexical cohesion is about meaning in text. It concerns the ways in which lexical items relate to each other and to other cohesive devices so that textual continuity is created. Traditionally, lexical cohesion (along with other types of cohesion) has been investigated in individual texts. With the advent of corpus techniques, however, there is potential to investigate lexical cohesion with reference to large corpora. This collection of papers illustrates a variety of corpus approaches to lexical cohesion. Contributions deal with lexical cohesion in relation to rhetorical structure, lexical bundles and discourse signalling, discourse intonation, semantic prosody, use of signalling nouns, and corpus linguistic theory. The volume also considers implications that innovative approaches to lexical cohesion can have for language teaching. This volume was originally published as a Special Issue of International Journal of Corpus Linguistics volume 11:3 (2006).


Lexical Priming

Lexical Priming

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  • Author: Michael Hoey
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1134333587
  • Category : Foreign Language Study
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 217

Lexical Priming proposes a radical new theory of the lexicon, which amounts to a completely new theory of language based on how words are used in the real world. Here they are not confined to the definitions given to them in dictionaries but instead interact with other words in common patterns of use. Using concrete statistical evidence from a corpus of newspaper English, but also referring to travel writing and literary text, the author argues that words are 'primed' for use through our experience with them, so that everything we know about a word is a product of our encounters with it. This knowledge explains how speakers of a language succeed in being fluent, creative and natural.


The Functions of ‹General Nouns›

The Functions of ‹General Nouns›

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  • Author: Vera Benninghoven
  • Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
  • ISBN: 9783631747582
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

The study provides a comprehensive description of from a micro- and macro-linguistic perspective. A corpus of different spoken and written genres is the basis for a detailed quantitative and qualitative analysis, which shows that 'general nouns' fulfil various genre-specific functions.


Aspects of Cohesion and Coherence in Translation

Aspects of Cohesion and Coherence in Translation

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  • Author: Krisztina Károly
  • Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
  • ISBN: 9027265232
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 269

This book deals with the (re)production of cohesion and coherence in translation. Building on the theories and methods of Translation Studies and Discourse Analysis it answers some basic, still much debated questions related to translational discourse production. Such a question is whether it is possible to analyse the (re)production of coherence, and if yes, how? Can the models devised for the study of English original (not translated) and independent texts (unlike translations and their sources) be applied for the analysis of translation? How do cohesive, rhetorical and generic structure “behave” in translation? How do particular components of coherence relate to translation universals? The volume proposes a complex translational discourse analysis model and presents findings that bring new insights primarily for the study of news translation, translation strategies and translation universals. It is recommended for translation researchers, discourse analysts, practicing translators, as well as professionals and students involved in translator training.


Cohesion in English

Cohesion in English

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  • Author: M.A.K. Halliday
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1317869591
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 388

Cohesion in English is concerned with a relatively neglected part of the linguistic system: its resources for text construction, the range of meanings that are speciffically associated with relating what is being spoken or written to its semantic environment. A principal component of these resources is 'cohesion'. This book studies the cohesion that arises from semantic relations between sentences. Reference from one to the other, repetition of word meanings, the conjunctive force of but, so, then and the like are considered. Further, it describes a method for analysing and coding sentences, which is applied to specimen texts.