Lexical Cohesion and Corpus Linguistics
Editors
Lexical cohesion is about meaning in text. It concerns the ways in which lexical items relate to each other and to other cohesive devices so that textual continuity is created. Traditionally, lexical cohesion (along with other types of cohesion) has been investigated in individual texts. With the advent of corpus techniques, however, there is potential to investigate lexical cohesion with reference to large corpora. This collection of papers illustrates a variety of corpus approaches to lexical cohesion. Contributions deal with lexical cohesion in relation to rhetorical structure, lexical bundles and discourse signalling, discourse intonation, semantic prosody, use of signalling nouns, and corpus linguistic theory. The volume also considers implications that innovative approaches to lexical cohesion can have for language teaching. This volume was originally published as a Special Issue of International Journal of Corpus Linguistics volume 11:3 (2006).
[Benjamins Current Topics, 17] 2009. vi, 124 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 19 December 2008
Published online on 19 December 2008
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Introduction | pp. 1–3
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Lexical cohesion and rhetorical structureJohn Morley | pp. 5–22
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Lexical bundles and discourse signalling in academic lecturesHilary Nesi and Helen Basturkmen | pp. 23–43
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Cohesive chains and speakers’ choice of prominenceMartin Warren | pp. 45–63
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Describing the extended meanings of lexical cohesion in a corpus of SARS spoken discourseWinnie Cheng | pp. 65–83
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Use of signalling nouns in a learner corpusJohn Flowerdew | pp. 85–102
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Lexical cohesion: Corpus linguistic theory and its application English in language teachingMichaela Mahlberg | pp. 103–122
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Index | pp. 123–124
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Renkema, Jan & Christoph Schubert
Babych, Svitlana
2015. Textual cohesion patterns for developing reading skills. In Multiple Affordances of Language Corpora for Data-driven Learning [Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 69], ► pp. 155 ff. 
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFG: Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General