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236007518 03 01 01 JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 JB code BCT 17 Eb 15 9789027289711 06 10.1075/bct.17 13 2008045370 DG 002 02 01 BCT 02 1874-0081 Benjamins Current Topics 17 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Lexical Cohesion and Corpus Linguistics</TitleText> 01 bct.17 01 https://benjamins.com 02 https://benjamins.com/catalog/bct.17 1 B01 John Flowerdew Flowerdew, John John Flowerdew University of Leeds 2 B01 Michaela Mahlberg Mahlberg, Michaela Michaela Mahlberg University of Liverpool 01 eng 130 vi 124 LAN009000 v.2006 CFG 2 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.CORP Corpus linguistics 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.DISC Discourse studies 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.FUNCT Functional linguistics 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.PRAG Pragmatics 06 01 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 <i>International Journal of Corpus Linguistics</i> volume 11:3 (2006). 04 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475/bct.17.png 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_jpg/9789027222473.jpg 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_tif/9789027222473.tif 06 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_front/bct.17.hb.png 07 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/125/bct.17.png 25 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_back/bct.17.hb.png 27 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/3d_web/bct.17.hb.png 10 01 JB code bct.17.01int 1 3 3 Miscellaneous 1 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Introduction</TitleText> 10 01 JB code bct.17.02mor 5 22 18 Article 2 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Lexical cohesion and rhetorical structure</TitleText> 1 A01 John Morley Morley, John John Morley University of Siena 20 corpus linguistics 20 discourse analysis 20 ESP 20 lexical cohesion 20 newspaper discourse 20 rhetoric 01 Lexical cohesion not only contributes to the texture of a text, it can help to indicate the rhetorical development of the discourse. This article looks at this argument-structuring function of lexical cohesion first by considering single texts using the techniques of classical discourse analysis and then by using the methodology of corpus linguistics to examine several million words of text. First, the nature of cohesive links within single articles is examined. Next, the link between headlines and the articles that follow them is studied. Finally, various concessive mechanisms which structure arguments are examined in detail. It is argued that an awareness of the mechanisms outlined in this article will help students to understand better the kind of argumentation presented in texts. All the texts studied are from English newspapers. 10 01 JB code bct.17.03nes 23 43 21 Article 3 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Lexical bundles and discourse signalling in academic lectures</TitleText> 1 A01 Hilary Nesi Nesi, Hilary Hilary Nesi Coventry University 2 A01 Helen Basturkmen Basturkmen, Helen Helen Basturkmen University of Auckland 20 academic discourse 20 BASE 20 cohesion 20 corpora 20 lectures 20 lexical bundles 20 linking ideas 20 MICASE 01 This paper discusses some approaches to the categorisation of cohesive devices with reference to spoken academic discourse, multi-word units, and strings of frequently co-occurring words (lexical bundles). It goes on to investigate the cohesive role of lexical bundles in a corpus of 160 university lectures (120 from the BASE corpus and 40 from MICASE). Like the bundles from the T2K SWAL teaching subcorpus, investigated by Biber, Conrad and Cortes (2004), the bundles in the lecture corpus included both ‘oral’ and ‘literate’ elements. The majority of frequently occurring bundles were found to be used to signal discourse relations, although their cohesive function was not necessarily obvious when listed out of context. 10 01 JB code bct.17.04war 45 63 19 Article 4 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Cohesive chains and speakers’ choice of prominence</TitleText> 1 A01 Martin Warren Warren, Martin Martin Warren The Hong Kong Polytechnic University 20 cohesive chain 20 discourse intonation 20 Hong Kong Corpus of Spoken English 20 job placement interview 20 lexical cohesion 20 prominence 01 This paper describes lexical cohesion across participants in a discourse, and across discourse events, and the additional contribution made by speakers’ choices of prominence in the cohesive chains. The choice of prominence is made to communicate what is perceived to be situationally informative in the local context of interaction (Brazil 1985 and 1997). This study describes a connection between a speaker’s choice of a lexical or non-lexical word in a cohesive chain and the speaker’s choice of prominence and, in doing so, offers a partial answer to the question Hoey (1991:17) asks of Winter (1974 and 1979): ‘under what circumstances do we use one (<i>cohesive device</i>) rather than the other?’. It also describes how the selection of prominence across speakers in a discourse can signal divergence and convergence between them. Lastly, the paper discusses the pedagogical implications of the study with regard to English language learning and teaching. 10 01 JB code bct.17.05che 65 83 19 Article 5 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Describing the extended meanings of lexical cohesion in a corpus of SARS spoken discourse</TitleText> 1 A01 Winnie Cheng Cheng, Winnie Winnie Cheng The Hong Kong Polytechnic University 20 colligation 20 collocation 20 core 20 extended units of meaning 20 Hong Kong Corpus of Spoken English 20 lexical cohesion 20 lexical item 20 semantic preference 20 semantic prosody 01 The study reported in this paper applies Sinclair’s (2004) descriptive model of lexical items, which consists of five categories of co-selection: two obligatory categories the core and semantic prosody, and three optional categories collocation, colligation and semantic preference. The study examines a selection of spoken discourse events collected in Hong Kong during and in the immediate aftermath of the SARS crisis in 2003. These discourse events form part of the <i>Hong Kong Corpus of Spoken English </i>(HKCSE). The findings show that once the overlapping patterns of co-selection of the most frequently occurring lexical words in the SARS corpus have been determined, it is possible to describe the cumulative effects of the habitual co-selection in the lexical items that contribute to textual meanings and coherence within and across the texts. It is argued that patterns of co-selection provide a fuller picture of textual and intertextual coherence than concentrating solely on lexical cohesion. 10 01 JB code bct.17.06flo 85 102 18 Article 6 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Use of signalling nouns in a learner corpus</TitleText> 1 A01 John Flowerdew Flowerdew, John John Flowerdew University of Leeds 20 coherence 20 cohesion 20 error analysis 20 learner corpus 20 learner error 20 lexical cohesion 20 signalling noun 01 Signalling nouns are nouns which have cohesive properties across and within clauses. A signalling noun is potentially any abstract noun the full meaning of which can only be made specific by reference to its context. Examples of nouns which can function as signalling nouns are attitude, assistance, difficulty, endurance, process, reason, result etc. Signalling nouns in discourse are closely associated with nominalisation and are problematic for learners. Based on a corpus of argumentative essays written by Cantonese L1 learners of English, this paper presents a taxonomy of error types and frequency data of the different error types in the use of signalling nouns. The paper then compares the average number of signalling nouns used per essay with grades awarded to the essays, on the one hand, and the numbers of signalling noun errors according to grades, on the other. In both cases there is a significant correlation. The findings confirm the intuitive idea that the use of signalling nouns adds to the overall coherence of a text. 10 01 JB code bct.17.07mah 103 122 20 Article 7 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Lexical cohesion: Corpus linguistic theory and its application English in language teaching</TitleText> 1 A01 Michaela Mahlberg Mahlberg, Michaela Michaela Mahlberg University of Liverpool 20 collocation 20 communicative approaches 20 lexical cohesion 20 lexical item 20 semantic prosody 01 Cohesion is generally described with regard to two broad categories: ‘grammatical cohesion’ and ‘lexical cohesion’. These categories reflect a view on language that treats grammar and lexis along separate lines. Language teaching textbooks on cohesion often follow this division. In contrast, a corpus theoretical approach to the description of English prioritises lexis and does not assume that lexical and grammatical phenomena can be clearly distinguished. Consequently, cohesion can be seen in a new light: cohesion is created by interlocking lexico-grammatical patterns and overlapping lexical items. A corpus theoretical approach to cohesion has important implications for English language teaching. The article looks at difficulties of teaching cohesion, shows links between communicative approaches to ELT and corpus linguistics, and suggests practical applications of corpus theoretical concepts. 10 01 JB code bct.17.08ind 123 124 2 Miscellaneous 8 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Index</TitleText> 02 JBENJAMINS John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam/Philadelphia NL 04 20090114 2009 John Benjamins 02 WORLD 13 15 9789027222473 01 JB 3 John Benjamins e-Platform 03 jbe-platform.com 09 WORLD 21 01 00 80.00 EUR R 01 00 67.00 GBP Z 01 gen 00 120.00 USD S 777007048 03 01 01 JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 JB code BCT 17 Hb 15 9789027222473 13 2008045370 BB 01 BCT 02 1874-0081 Benjamins Current Topics 17 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Lexical Cohesion and Corpus Linguistics</TitleText> 01 bct.17 01 https://benjamins.com 02 https://benjamins.com/catalog/bct.17 1 B01 John Flowerdew Flowerdew, John John Flowerdew University of Leeds 2 B01 Michaela Mahlberg Mahlberg, Michaela Michaela Mahlberg University of Liverpool 01 eng 130 vi 124 LAN009000 v.2006 CFG 2 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.CORP Corpus linguistics 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.DISC Discourse studies 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.FUNCT Functional linguistics 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.PRAG Pragmatics 06 01 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 <i>International Journal of Corpus Linguistics</i> volume 11:3 (2006). 04 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475/bct.17.png 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_jpg/9789027222473.jpg 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_tif/9789027222473.tif 06 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_front/bct.17.hb.png 07 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/125/bct.17.png 25 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_back/bct.17.hb.png 27 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/3d_web/bct.17.hb.png 10 01 JB code bct.17.01int 1 3 3 Miscellaneous 1 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Introduction</TitleText> 10 01 JB code bct.17.02mor 5 22 18 Article 2 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Lexical cohesion and rhetorical structure</TitleText> 1 A01 John Morley Morley, John John Morley University of Siena 20 corpus linguistics 20 discourse analysis 20 ESP 20 lexical cohesion 20 newspaper discourse 20 rhetoric 01 Lexical cohesion not only contributes to the texture of a text, it can help to indicate the rhetorical development of the discourse. This article looks at this argument-structuring function of lexical cohesion first by considering single texts using the techniques of classical discourse analysis and then by using the methodology of corpus linguistics to examine several million words of text. First, the nature of cohesive links within single articles is examined. Next, the link between headlines and the articles that follow them is studied. Finally, various concessive mechanisms which structure arguments are examined in detail. It is argued that an awareness of the mechanisms outlined in this article will help students to understand better the kind of argumentation presented in texts. All the texts studied are from English newspapers. 10 01 JB code bct.17.03nes 23 43 21 Article 3 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Lexical bundles and discourse signalling in academic lectures</TitleText> 1 A01 Hilary Nesi Nesi, Hilary Hilary Nesi Coventry University 2 A01 Helen Basturkmen Basturkmen, Helen Helen Basturkmen University of Auckland 20 academic discourse 20 BASE 20 cohesion 20 corpora 20 lectures 20 lexical bundles 20 linking ideas 20 MICASE 01 This paper discusses some approaches to the categorisation of cohesive devices with reference to spoken academic discourse, multi-word units, and strings of frequently co-occurring words (lexical bundles). It goes on to investigate the cohesive role of lexical bundles in a corpus of 160 university lectures (120 from the BASE corpus and 40 from MICASE). Like the bundles from the T2K SWAL teaching subcorpus, investigated by Biber, Conrad and Cortes (2004), the bundles in the lecture corpus included both ‘oral’ and ‘literate’ elements. The majority of frequently occurring bundles were found to be used to signal discourse relations, although their cohesive function was not necessarily obvious when listed out of context. 10 01 JB code bct.17.04war 45 63 19 Article 4 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Cohesive chains and speakers’ choice of prominence</TitleText> 1 A01 Martin Warren Warren, Martin Martin Warren The Hong Kong Polytechnic University 20 cohesive chain 20 discourse intonation 20 Hong Kong Corpus of Spoken English 20 job placement interview 20 lexical cohesion 20 prominence 01 This paper describes lexical cohesion across participants in a discourse, and across discourse events, and the additional contribution made by speakers’ choices of prominence in the cohesive chains. The choice of prominence is made to communicate what is perceived to be situationally informative in the local context of interaction (Brazil 1985 and 1997). This study describes a connection between a speaker’s choice of a lexical or non-lexical word in a cohesive chain and the speaker’s choice of prominence and, in doing so, offers a partial answer to the question Hoey (1991:17) asks of Winter (1974 and 1979): ‘under what circumstances do we use one (<i>cohesive device</i>) rather than the other?’. It also describes how the selection of prominence across speakers in a discourse can signal divergence and convergence between them. Lastly, the paper discusses the pedagogical implications of the study with regard to English language learning and teaching. 10 01 JB code bct.17.05che 65 83 19 Article 5 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Describing the extended meanings of lexical cohesion in a corpus of SARS spoken discourse</TitleText> 1 A01 Winnie Cheng Cheng, Winnie Winnie Cheng The Hong Kong Polytechnic University 20 colligation 20 collocation 20 core 20 extended units of meaning 20 Hong Kong Corpus of Spoken English 20 lexical cohesion 20 lexical item 20 semantic preference 20 semantic prosody 01 The study reported in this paper applies Sinclair’s (2004) descriptive model of lexical items, which consists of five categories of co-selection: two obligatory categories the core and semantic prosody, and three optional categories collocation, colligation and semantic preference. The study examines a selection of spoken discourse events collected in Hong Kong during and in the immediate aftermath of the SARS crisis in 2003. These discourse events form part of the <i>Hong Kong Corpus of Spoken English </i>(HKCSE). The findings show that once the overlapping patterns of co-selection of the most frequently occurring lexical words in the SARS corpus have been determined, it is possible to describe the cumulative effects of the habitual co-selection in the lexical items that contribute to textual meanings and coherence within and across the texts. It is argued that patterns of co-selection provide a fuller picture of textual and intertextual coherence than concentrating solely on lexical cohesion. 10 01 JB code bct.17.06flo 85 102 18 Article 6 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Use of signalling nouns in a learner corpus</TitleText> 1 A01 John Flowerdew Flowerdew, John John Flowerdew University of Leeds 20 coherence 20 cohesion 20 error analysis 20 learner corpus 20 learner error 20 lexical cohesion 20 signalling noun 01 Signalling nouns are nouns which have cohesive properties across and within clauses. A signalling noun is potentially any abstract noun the full meaning of which can only be made specific by reference to its context. Examples of nouns which can function as signalling nouns are attitude, assistance, difficulty, endurance, process, reason, result etc. Signalling nouns in discourse are closely associated with nominalisation and are problematic for learners. Based on a corpus of argumentative essays written by Cantonese L1 learners of English, this paper presents a taxonomy of error types and frequency data of the different error types in the use of signalling nouns. The paper then compares the average number of signalling nouns used per essay with grades awarded to the essays, on the one hand, and the numbers of signalling noun errors according to grades, on the other. In both cases there is a significant correlation. The findings confirm the intuitive idea that the use of signalling nouns adds to the overall coherence of a text. 10 01 JB code bct.17.07mah 103 122 20 Article 7 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Lexical cohesion: Corpus linguistic theory and its application English in language teaching</TitleText> 1 A01 Michaela Mahlberg Mahlberg, Michaela Michaela Mahlberg University of Liverpool 20 collocation 20 communicative approaches 20 lexical cohesion 20 lexical item 20 semantic prosody 01 Cohesion is generally described with regard to two broad categories: ‘grammatical cohesion’ and ‘lexical cohesion’. These categories reflect a view on language that treats grammar and lexis along separate lines. Language teaching textbooks on cohesion often follow this division. In contrast, a corpus theoretical approach to the description of English prioritises lexis and does not assume that lexical and grammatical phenomena can be clearly distinguished. Consequently, cohesion can be seen in a new light: cohesion is created by interlocking lexico-grammatical patterns and overlapping lexical items. A corpus theoretical approach to cohesion has important implications for English language teaching. The article looks at difficulties of teaching cohesion, shows links between communicative approaches to ELT and corpus linguistics, and suggests practical applications of corpus theoretical concepts. 10 01 JB code bct.17.08ind 123 124 2 Miscellaneous 8 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Index</TitleText> 02 JBENJAMINS John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam/Philadelphia NL 04 20090114 2009 John Benjamins 02 WORLD 01 245 mm 02 164 mm 08 405 gr 01 JB 1 John Benjamins Publishing Company +31 20 6304747 +31 20 6739773 bookorder@benjamins.nl 01 https://benjamins.com 01 WORLD US CA MX 21 1 01 02 JB 1 00 80.00 EUR R 02 02 JB 1 00 84.80 EUR R 01 JB 10 bebc +44 1202 712 934 +44 1202 712 913 sales@bebc.co.uk 03 GB 21 02 02 JB 1 00 67.00 GBP Z 01 JB 2 John Benjamins North America +1 800 562-5666 +1 703 661-1501 benjamins@presswarehouse.com 01 https://benjamins.com 01 US CA MX 21 01 gen 02 JB 1 00 120.00 USD