Patterns, meaningful units and specialized discourses / edited by Ute Romer, Rainer Schulze.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Römer, Ute.

Schulze, Rainer.

Series:

Benjamins current topics ; v. 22.

Benjamins current topics, 1874-0081 ; v. 22

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discourse analysis.

Corpora (Linguistics).

Semantics.

Performance--Psychological aspects.

Performance.

Phraseology.

Physical Description:

124 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, Pa. : John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection of papers explores some facets in the areas of Corpus Linguistics and Phraseology which have gone unnoticed so far. With the aid of a range of different corpora and new-generation software tools, the authors tackle specialized domains and discourse in specialized settings, utilizing some innovative approaches to the study of recurrent features and patterns in the languages of economics, history, linguistics, politics, and other fields. The papers critically examine contemporary discourses in which experts and laypersons are equally involved, showing that the spoken and written texts, selected from various specialized corpora, can be seen as collective memory banks. The series of reflections and specialized meanings uncovered in these texts are closely tied to particular sequences of patterned chunks in language and offer exciting insights into the inseparability of lexis and grammar.The contributions to this volume were previously published in International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 13:3 (2008).

Contents:

Introduction: patterns, meaningful units and specialized discourses / Rainer Schulze and Ute Römer

Starting with the small words: Patterns, lexis and semantic sequences / Susan Hunston

Emphasizers in spoken and written academic discourse: The case of really / Giuliana Diani

The terroridiom principle between spoken and written discourse / Denise Milizia and Cinzia Spinzi

N-grams in comparable specialized corpora: Perspectives on phraseology, translation, and pedagogy / Pierfranca Forchini and Amanda Murphy

From phraseology to culture: Qualifying adjectives in the language of tourism / Elena Manca.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612663369

9781282663367

1282663364

9789027288097

9027288097

OCLC:

657762484