LINGUIST List 17.358

Thu Feb 02 2006

Books: Text/Corpus Linguistics, English: Mahlberg

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Message 1: English General Nouns: Mahlberg
Date: 27-Jan-2006
From: Paul Peranteau <paulbenjamins.com>
Subject: English General Nouns: Mahlberg


Title: English General Nouns Subtitle: A corpus theoretical approach Series Title: Studies in Corpus Linguistics 20 Published: 2005 Publisher: John Benjamins
                http://www.benjamins.com/

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=SCL%2020

Author: Michaela Mahlberg, University of Liverpool Hardback: ISBN: 9027222916 Pages: x, 206 Price: U.S. $ 119.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9027222916 Pages: x, 206 Price: Europe EURO 99.00
Abstract:

This book proposes an innovative approach to general nouns. General nounsare defined as high-frequency nouns that are characterised by their textualfunctions. Although the concept is motivated by Halliday & Hasan (1976),the corpus theoretical approach adopted in the present study isfundamentally different and set in a linguistic framework that prioritiseslexis. The study investigates 20 nouns that are very frequent in mainstreamEnglish, as represented by the Bank of English Corpus. The corpus-drivenapproach to the data involves a critical discussion of descriptive tools,such as patterns, semantic prosodies, and primings of lexical items, andthe concept of 'local textual functions' is put forward to characterise thefunctions of the nouns in texts. The study not only suggests acharacterisation of general nouns, but also stresses that functions oflexical items and properties of texts are closely linked. This linkrequires new ways of describing language.

Table of contents

Acknowledgements ixIntroduction 1-31. The attention they have been getting 5-112. The corpus linguistic point of view 13-393. Minimal assumptions in practice: interpreting corpus data 41-614. Time nouns 63-985. People Nouns 99-1396. World nouns 141-1597. Re-examining the minimal assumptions 161-1788. Developing the corpus linguistic theory 179-194Appendix 1: Pattern codes 195Appendix 2: 'Longer examples in Chapter 5' 196References 197-203Index 205-206

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics                             Linguistic Theories                             Semantics                             Text/Corpus Linguistics
Subject Language(s): English (eng)
Written In: English (eng )

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