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Current issues in phraseology /

This paper explores ways in which research into collocation should be improved. After a discussion of the parameters underlying the notion of collocation, the paper has three main parts. First, I argue that corpus linguistics would benefit from taking more seriously the understudied fact that colloc...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hoffmann, Sebastian (Editor ), Fischer-Starcke, Bettina (Editor ), Sand, Andrea (Linguist) (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2015]
Colección:Benjamins current topics ; 74.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Current Issues in Phraseology; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; About the authors ; Introduction; References; On the ADV1 and ADV1 construction with adverbs of direction in English; 1. Introduction: The ADV1 and ADV1 construction ; 2. Material and method ; 3. Results ; 3.1 Distribution ; 3.1.1 Overall frequency ; 3.1.2 Frequency over time ; 3.2 Over and over ; 3.3 Again and again ; 3.4 On and on ; 3.5 (A)round and (a)round ; 3.6 Up and up ; 3.7 Through and through ; 3.8 By and by ; 4. Discussion ; 4.1 Semantic-pragmatic processes ; 4.1.1 Metaphorization.
  • 4.1.2 Subjectification 4.1.3 Development of textual or discourse functions ; 4.1.4 Grammaticalization and lexicalization ; 4.1.5 Iconicity ; 5. Conclusions ; Notes ; References ; Phrases in literary contexts: Patterns and distributions of suspensions in Dickens's novels; 1. Introduction ; 2. Studying suspensions in a corpus of Dickens's novels; 3. Suspensions and body language presentation ; 4. Suspensions across novels ; 5. Suspensions and the reporting verbs exclaimed and continued ; Conclusions ; Notes ; References.
  • On "true" portraits of Letters to Shareholders
  • and the importance of phraseological analysis1. Introduction ; 2. CEOs' Letters as a text type and the CEOL corpus ; 3. Macroscopic analysis of the CEOL corpus ; 3.1 Investigation of main message of the CEOL corpora using DICTION ; 3.2 Key words in the CEOL 2008 corpus using WordSmith Tools ; 3.3 Wmatrix and key semantic domains ; 4. Closer analyses of the CEOL corpus ; 4.1 Closer analyses with DICTION ; 4.2 Closer analyses with WordSmith Tools ; 4.3 Closer analyses with Wmatrix ; 5. Discussion and conclusions ; Notes ; References.
  • The development of formulaic sequences in first and second language writing1. Introduction; 1.1 Formulaic sequences; 1.2 Corpus analysis of formulaic sequences; 1.3 Psycholinguistic analysis of formulaic sequences; 1.4 Triangulating corpus and psycholinguistic research; 1.5 Operationalizing formulaic language; 1.6 The goals of this research; 2. Measuring formulaic language in apprentice and expert academic writing; 2.1 Measures; 2.1.1 Frequency; 2.1.2 Association; 2.1.3 Phrase-frames; 2.1.4 Native norms; 2.2 Corpora used; 2.3 Stratified sampling, n-gram/p-frame extraction and formula matching.
  • 2.3.1 Corpus sampling approach2.3.2 N-gram extraction; 2.3.3 Mutual Information calculation ; 2.3.4 P-frame extraction ; 2.3.5 AFL n-gram calculation ; 3. Results; 3.1 Frequency-defined n-grams across corpora (Frequency-grams); 3.2 MI-defined n-grams across corpora (MI-grams); 3.3 P-frames across corpora; 3.4 Target formulas across corpora (AFL-grams); 4. Conclusion; Notes; References; Lexical frames in academic prose and conversation; 1. Introduction ; 2. Method ; 2.1 Corpora ; 2.2 Database construction and analysis procedures ; 3. Results.