Lexical Cohesion and Corpus Linguistics

2009-01-14
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 : 124

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

2006-01-01
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 in literary texts

2011-07-13
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

New perspectives on cohesion and coherence

2017-06-23
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, Coherence and Temporal Reference from an Experimental Corpus Pragmatics Perspective

2018-10-06
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.

Aspects of Cohesion and Coherence in Translation

2017-08-07
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.

Advances in Corpus-based Contrastive Linguistics

2013-03-13
Advances in Corpus-based Contrastive Linguistics

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  • Author: Karin Aijmer
  • Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
  • ISBN: 9027272328
  • Category : Computers
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 295

Contrastive studies have experienced a dramatic revival in the last decades. By combining the methodological advantages of computer corpus linguistics and the possibility of contrasting texts in two or more languages, the structure and use of languages can be explored with greater accuracy, detail and empirical strength than before. The approach has also proved to have fruitful practical applications in a number of areas such as language teaching, lexicography, translation studies and computer-aided translation. This volume contains twelve studies comparing linguistic phenomena in English and seven other languages. The topics range from comparisons of specific lexical categories and word combinations to syntactic constructions and discourse phenomena such as cohesion and thematic structure. The studies highlight similarities and differences in the use, semantics and functions of the compared items, as well as the emergence of new meanings and language change. The emphasis varies from purely linguistic studies to those focusing on practical applications.

Cohesion in English

2014-01-14
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.

GECCo - German-English Contrasts in Cohesion

2021-10-25
GECCo - German-English Contrasts in Cohesion

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  • Author: Kerstin Kunz
  • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • ISBN: 3110711079
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 288

In contrastive linguistics of English and German, there is a tradition of accounting for contrasts with respect to grammar and, to a lesser extent, for lexis and phonetics. Moving on to discourse and text, there is a sizeable body of literature on cohesive patterns in English and German respectively - but very little in terms of a comparison. The latter, though, is of particular interest for language learners, translators and, of course, linguists and researchers in language technology. This book attempts to close this gap, based on a number of years of corpus-based study into variation and cohesion in the two languages. While there is an overall focus on language contrasts, it also investigates variation between different registers language-internally, and between written and spoken mode in particular. For each of the five major types of cohesion (co-reference, substitution, ellipsis, conjunctive relations and lexical cohesion), overviews are given of contrasts in the system and of contrastive frequencies in texts. Results and methods presented in this book are thus relevant for language teaching, translation, language technology and corpus-based work on English and German generally.

Discourse Patterns in Spoken and Written Corpora

2004-01-01
Discourse Patterns in Spoken and Written Corpora

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  • Author: Karin Aijmer
  • Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
  • ISBN: 9789027253620
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 294

This book brings together a number of empirical studies that use corpora to study discourse patterns in speech and writing. It explores new trends in the area of text and discourse characterized by the alliance between text linguistics and areas such as corpus linguistics, genre analysis, literary stylistics and cross-linguistic studies. The contributions to the volume show how established corpora can be used to ask a number of new questions about the interface between speech and writing, the relation between grammar and discourse, academic discourse, cohesive markers, stylistic devices such as metaphor, deixis and non-verbal communication. The corpora used for text-analysis can also be tailor-made for the study of particular genres such as journal article abstracts, lectures, e-mailing list messages, headlines and titles. A recent development is to bring in contrastive data from bilingual corpora to show what is language-specific in the organization of the text.