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Record Nr.

UNINA9910972267703321

Titolo

Patterns, meaningful units and specialized discourses / / edited by Ute Romer, Rainer Schulze

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, Pa., : John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2010

ISBN

9786612663369

9781282663367

1282663364

9789027288097

9027288097

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

124 p

Collana

Benjamins current topics, , 1874-0081 ; ; v. 22

Altri autori (Persone)

RomerUte

SchulzeRainer

Disciplina

401/.41

Soggetti

Discourse analysis

Corpora (Linguistics)

Semantics

Performance - Psychological aspects

Phraseology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: patterns, meaningful units and specialized discourses / Rainer Schulze and Ute Ròˆmer -- Starting with the small words: Patterns, lexis and semantic sequences / Susan Hunston -- Emphasizers in spoken and written academic discourse: The case of really / Giuliana Diani -- The terroridiom principle between spoken and written discourse / Denise Milizia and Cinzia Spinzi -- N-grams in comparable specialized corpora: Perspectives on phraseology, translation, and pedagogy / Pierfranca Forchini and Amanda Murphy -- From phraseology to culture: Qualifying adjectives in the language of tourism / Elena Manca.

Sommario/riassunto

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).