Patterns, meaningful units and specialized discourses
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Patterns, meaningful units and specialized discourses
（Benjamins current topics, v. 22）
J. Benjamins, c2010
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Originally published in International journal of corpus linguistics 13:3 (2008)
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
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).
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction: Patterns, meaningful units and specialized discourses (by Schulze, Rainer)
- 2. Starting with the small words: Patterns, lexis and semantic sequences (by Hunston, Susan)
- 3. Emphasizers in spoken and written academic discourse: The case of really (by Diani, Giuliana)
- 4. The 'terroridiom' principle between spoken and written discourse (by Milizia, Denise)
- 5. 4-grams in comparable specialized corpora: Perspectives on phraseology, translation, and pedagogy (by Forchini, Pierfranca)
- 6. From phraseology to culture: Qualifying adjectives in the language of tourism (by Manca, Elena)
- 7. Index
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