English General Nouns

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A corpus theoretical approach

Michaela Mahlberg(Autor*in)

John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Erschienen am 14. Dezember 2005

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English General Nouns
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
The attention they have been getting
Introduction
1.1. Halliday & Hasan's (1976) approach
1.2. The class of general nouns
1.3. The cohesive function of general nouns: Continuum and context
1.4. Corpus linguistic findings
Conclusion
Notes
The corpus linguistic point of view
Introduction
2.1. Electronic corpora and the study of language
2.2. Corpus linguistics: Theory and methodology
2.2.1. Corpus-based versus corpus-driven approaches
2.2.2. Technical possibilities and descriptive tools
2.3. A lexical approach to the description of English
2.3.1. The lexical item
2.3.2. The Pattern Grammar
2.3.3. Lexical priming
2.3.4. Lexis, grammar, and text: Differences in the corpus-driven approach
2.4. A corpus theoretical approach to general nouns
2.4.1. The corpus theoretical framework
2.4.2. Minimal assumptions for the study of general nouns
Conclusion
Notes
Minimal assumptions in practice
Introduction
3.1. The corpora of the present study
3.2. Frequency
3.2.1. What does the computer count?
3.2.2. Frequency lists and key words
3.2.3. Frequency and general nouns
3.2.4. The nouns in the corpus study
3.3. Context
3.3.1. Analysing concordance data
3.3.2. Dynamic categories and ad hoc labels
Conclusion
Note
Time nouns
Introduction
4.1. Time nouns - an overview
Time orientation
Measurement
Investing time
Time passes
History, life
School, university
Evaluation and text organisation
Combinations
Other examples
4.2. Time orientation
4.3. Investing time
Concordance 4.2 The 15 examples in the investing time group
4.4. Evaluation and text organisation
4.5. The fuzziness of meaning
4.6. The need for local categories of description
Conclusion
Notes
Appendix
100 concordance lines for time
100 concordance lines for times
100 concordance lines for year
100 concordance lines for years
100 concordance lines for day
People nouns
Introduction
5.1. People nouns - an overview
5.1.1. Meanings of people nouns
Concordance 5.1 The first 25 examples of man
5.1.2. The descriptive tool `person'
5.2. man and woman
5.2.1. The introducing function
5.2.2. The characterising function
5.2.3. The continuity function
5.2.4. The meaning of a noun in its narrow context: The support function
5.3. men and women
Concordance 5.2 The 21 examples of men of category C that occur without determiners and modifiers
Concordance 5.3 The 32 examples of women of category C that occur without determiners and modifiers
5.4. people
Concordance 5.4 The 29 examples of people without determiners and modifiers
5.5. family
5.6. People nouns - the group
Concordance 5.6 Some examples of government
Conclusion
Appendix
100 concordance lines for man
100 concordance lines for men
100 concordance lines for women
100 concordance lines for people
World nouns
Introduction
6.1. The diversity of meanings of world nouns
Concordance 6.1 50 examples of part
Concordance 6.2 Some examples of way
6.2. Evaluation in discourse
6.2.1. Language use and language functions
6.2.2. Approaching evaluation
6.2.3. Corpus linguistics and evaluation
6.3. Evaluative meanings of world nouns
6.3.1. Adjective patterns with general nouns
6.3.2. Evaluative patterns of world nouns
Conclusion
Notes
Re-examining the minimal assumptions
Introduction
7.1. Frequency
7.1.1. Meaning and paraphrase
7.1.2. Frequent nouns as characteristics of texts
7.2. General nouns and the word class noun
7.3. Context
7.3.1. Subgroups of nouns
7.3.2. Local textual functions of general nouns
7.4. What are general nouns?
7.4.1. Quantitative and qualitative features of general nouns
7.4.2. General nouns and cohesion
7.4.3. A corpus linguistic view on general nouns
Conclusion
Note
Developing the corpus linguistic theory
Introduction
8.1. The methodology of the corpus study
8.2. Even more attention is needed
8.2.1. Future work
8.2.2. Applications
8.3. Describing meaning in text: A flexible approach
8.3.1. The elusiveness of meaning
8.3.2. The corpus linguistic theory - where are we now?
8.3.3. Flexible grammar
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
References
Index
The series Studies in Corpus Linguistics

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