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: 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).

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 : 168

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.

The Virtual Linguistics Campus

2006
The Virtual Linguistics Campus

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  • Author: Jürgen Handke, Peter Franke
  • Publisher: Waxmann Verlag
  • ISBN: 383096689X
  • Category : Internet in education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 328

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.

Words and Phrases

2001-10-08
Words and Phrases

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  • Author: Michael Stubbs
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
  • ISBN: 0631208321
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 292

This book fills a gap in studies of meaning by providing detailed case studies of attested corpus data on the meanings of words and phrases.

Lexical Priming

2012-10-12
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.

Signalling Nouns in English

2015-01-22
Signalling Nouns in English

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  • Author: John Flowerdew
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1316123340
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 305

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.

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.

Corpus Linguistics and African Englishes

2019-02-15
Corpus Linguistics and African Englishes

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  • Author: Alexandra U. Esimaje
  • Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
  • ISBN: 9027262934
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 415

Corpus linguistics has become one of the most widely used methodologies across the different linguistic subdisciplines; especially the study of world-wide varieties of English uses corpus-based investigations as one of the chief methodologies. This volume comprises descriptions of the many new corpus initiatives both within and outside Africa that aim to compile various corpora of African Englishes. Moreover, it contains cutting-edge corpus-based research on African Englishes and the use of corpora in pedagogic contexts within African institutions. This volume thus serves both as a practical introduction to corpus compilation (Part I of the book), corpus-based research (Part II) and the application of corpora in language teaching (Part III), and is intended both for those researchers not yet familiar with corpus linguistics and as a reference work for all international researchers investigating the linguistic properties of African Englishes.