28.2675, Books: Signalling Nouns in English: Flowerdew, Forest

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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 13:35:54
From: Jack Groutage [jgroutage at cambridge.org]
Subject: Signalling Nouns in English: Flowerdew, Forest

 


Title: Signalling Nouns in English 
Subtitle: A Corpus-Based Discourse Approach 
Publication Year: 2017 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/discourse-analysis/signalling-nouns-english-corpus-based-discourse-approach 


Author: John Flowerdew
Author: Richard W. Forest

Paperback: ISBN:  9781108403894 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 35.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108403894 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 23.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108403894 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 31.19


Abstract:

Editor’s Note: This is a new edition of a previously announced book.

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.
 



1. Introduction
2. Grammatical features of signalling nouns
3. Semantic features
4. Discourse features
5. Criteria for determining what constitutes a signalling noun in this study
6. Corpus, methodology, annotation system, and reporting of the data
7. Set of examples
8. Overview of signalling noun distributions in the corpus
9. Overview of semantic categories
10. Overview of lexicogrammatical and discourse pattern frequencies
11. Conclusion
References
Appendix A. The overall structure of the corpus
Appendix B. List of texts that make up the corpus
Appendix C. Lemmatised SNs in descending order according to normalised
frequency
Appendix D. Non-lemmatised SNs in descending order according to normalised
frequency
Appendix E. Lemmatised SNs in alphabetical order
Appendix F. Non-lemmatised SNs in alphabetical order
Appendix G. Frequency of SNs in different semantic categories.
 


Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     Semantics
                     Syntax
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)


Written In: English  (eng)

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