New Benjamins title: Flowerdew & Mahlberg - Lexical Cohesion and Corpus Linguistics

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Lexical Cohesion and Corpus Linguistics
Edited by John Flowerdew and Michaela Mahlberg
University of Leeds / University of Liverpool
Benjamins Current Topics 17
2009. vi, 124 pp.

Hardbound  978 90 272 2247 3 / EUR 80.00 / USD 120.00
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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).


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Table of contents

Introduction  13
Lexical cohesion and rhetorical structure
John Morley 522
Lexical bundles and discourse signalling in academic lectures
Hilary Nesi and Helen Basturkmen 2343
Cohesive chains and speakers' choice of prominence
Martin Warren 4563
Describing the extended meanings of lexical cohesion in a corpus of 
SARS spoken discourse
Winnie Cheng 6583
Use of signalling nouns in a learner corpus
John Flowerdew 85102
Lexical cohesion: Corpus linguistic theory and its application 
English in language teaching
Michaela Mahlberg 103122
Index  123124


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