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Lexical cohesion and corpus linguistics /

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 ad...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Flowerdew, John, Mahlberg, Michaela
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2009.
Series:Benjamins current topics ; v. 17.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Lexical cohesion and rhetorical structure / John Morley
  • Lexical bundles and discourse signalling in academic lectures / Hilary Nesi and Helen Basturkmen
  • Cohesive chains and speakers' choice of prominence / Martin Warren
  • Describing the extended meanings of lexical cohesion in a corpus of SARS spoken discourse / Winnie Cheng
  • Use of signalling nouns in a learner corpus / John Flowerdew
  • Lexical cohesion: Corpus linguistic theory and its application in English language teaching / Michaela Mahlberg.