Lexical Cohesion and Corpus Linguistics

Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-90-272-2247-3
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Buch, Englisch, Band 17, 124 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 405 g

Reihe: Benjamins Current Topics

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).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Flowerdew, John

Mahlberg, Michaela

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Computerlinguistik, Korpuslinguistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Lexical cohesion and rhetorical structure
John Morley
Lexical bundles and discourse signalling in academic lectures
Hilary Nesi and Helen Basturkmen
Cohesive chains and speakers’ choice of prominence
Martin Warren
Describing the extended meanings of lexical cohesion in a corpus of SARS spoken discourse
Winnie Cheng
Use of signalling nouns in a learner corpus
John Flowerdew
Lexical cohesion: Corpus linguistic theory and its application English in language teaching
Michaela Mahlberg
Index