Biomedical English [[electronic resource] ] : a corpus-based approach / / edited by Isabel Verdaguer, Natalia Judith Laso, Danica Salazar |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | xiii, 214 p. : ill |
Disciplina | 420.1/47 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
VerdaguerIsabel
LasoNatalia Judith SalazarDanica |
Collana | Studies in corpus linguistics (SIN) |
Soggetto topico |
English language
English language - Technical English Medical sciences |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 90-272-7192-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910465171503321 |
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Biomedical English [[electronic resource] ] : a corpus-based approach / / edited by Isabel Verdaguer, Natalia Judith Laso, Danica Salazar |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | xiii, 214 p. : ill |
Disciplina | 420.1/47 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
VerdaguerIsabel
LasoNatalia Judith SalazarDanica |
Collana | Studies in corpus linguistics (SIN) |
Soggetto topico |
English language
English language - Technical English Medical sciences |
ISBN | 90-272-7192-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910792146303321 |
Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Biomedical English : a corpus-based approach / / edited by Isabel Verdaguer, Natalia Judith Laso, Danica Salazar |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | xiii, 214 p. : ill |
Disciplina | 420.1/47 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
VerdaguerIsabel
LasoNatalia Judith SalazarDanica |
Collana | Studies in corpus linguistics (SIN) |
Soggetto topico |
English language
English language - Technical English Medical sciences |
ISBN | 90-272-7192-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Biomedical English -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- In memory of -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- References -- Collocations, lexical bundles and SciE-Lex -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Sinclair's notion of collocation -- 3. Different approaches to collocation -- 4. Corpus-based vs. corpus-driven approaches to phraseology -- 5. Phraseological status of lexical bundles -- 6. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- SciE-Lex -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Purpose -- 3. Corpus description -- 4. SciE-Lex: First stage -- 5. SciE-Lex: Second stage -- 6. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Formal and functional variation of lexical bundles in biomedical English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Morphosyntactic and lexical variation -- 3. Functional variation -- 3.1 Functional classification of lexical bundles -- 3.2. Multifunctionality of lexical bundles -- 4. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- A corpus-based analysis of the collocational patterning of adjectives with abstract nouns in medical English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The concepts of lexis, grammar and collocation in discourse -- 3. Corpus and method -- 3.1 Corpus-based methodological approach -- 3.2 Method -- 4. Results -- 4.1 The pattern adjective + conclusion -- 4.2 The pattern adjective + agreement -- 4.3 The pattern adjective + comparison -- 4.4 The pattern adjective + decision -- 4.5 Summary of results -- 5. Conclusion and implications -- 5.1 Main conclusions -- 5.2 Implications -- Acknowledgements -- References -- As described below -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Corpora and methodology -- 3. Research questions -- 4. Results and discussion -- 4.1 Case study: The verb describe in health science register -- 4.1.1 Overall frequency: Word class and morphological variants -- 4.1.2 Main patterns of the verb describe.
4.1.2.1 Group pattern 1: V n (active pattern)/be V-ed (passive pattern). The simple pattern V n (1, 2) corresponds to the transitive use of the active form of the verb describe, which is followed by a noun group functioning as the object of the sentence ( -- 4.1.2.2 Group pattern 2: N [Adv] V-ed [Adv]/[PP] or N [Adv] V-ing [Adv]/[PP] (V-ed-as-a-post-modifier pattern) and (Adv) V-ed N (V-ed-as-a-pre-modifier pattern). When comparing group pattern 1 with group pattern 2, a clear difference depending on the fin -- 4.1.2.3 Group pattern 3: N V-ed as N (Simple categorisation pattern)/N (be) V-ed as N (Complex categorisation pattern). This group pattern is composed of at least four different elements: a noun group N that precedes the pattern, followed by the past part -- 4.1.2.4 Group pattern 4: as [Adv] V-ed [Adv] (temporal guiding pattern)/as V-ed [Adv]/[PP] (spatial guiding pattern). The particle as, followed by the past participle form of the V-ed, introduces a verbless clause, which can be transformed into a finite c -- 4.2 Interconnection between patterns, meaning, and lexis -- 5. Verbal form describe vs. Nominal form description -- 5.1 V description -- 5.1.1 Verbs of 'giving' + description -- 5.1.2 Verbs of 'receiving' + description -- 5.1.3 Other type of semantically equivalent transformations -- 5.2 Description + preposition -- 6. Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Websites -- References for examples taken from the Health Science Corpus -- Negation in biomedical English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Results and discussion -- 2.1 The phraseology of the adjectives likely and unlikely -- 2.2 The phraseology of the adjectives clear and unclear -- 2.3 The phraseology of the adjectives able and unable -- 3. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- References for examples. A cross-disciplinary analysis of personal and impersonal features in English and Spanish scientific writing -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Previous studies on personal and impersonal features in academic writing -- 3. Research questions -- 4. Corpora and methodology -- 5. Results and discussion -- 5.1 Overall frequency results -- 5.2 Usage patterns of personal and impersonal features in Medicine -- 5.2.1 Personal forms in Medicine -- 5.2.2 Impersonal forms in Medicine -- 5.3 Usage patterns of personal and impersonal features in Mathematics -- 5.3.1 Personal forms in Mathematics -- 5.3.2 Impersonal forms in Mathematics -- 5.4 The rhetorical functions of personal and impersonal forms -- 6. Conclusions and recommendations -- Acknowledgements -- References -- References for examples taken from the corpora -- Gender assignment in present-day scientific English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The grammatical category of gender in English -- 2.1 Gender and nouns of animals in English -- 3. The Health Science Corpus-Zoology -- 3.1 Units of Anaphoric Reference (UARs) -- 3.2 Nouns in the corpus -- 4. Data analysis -- 5. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- References for the UARs in HSC-Z -- The metaphorical basis of discourse structure -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Metaphor in language and discourse -- 3. Metaphor and discourse structure -- 4. An insight into source-path-goal and force-dynamic image schemas -- The source-path-goal schema -- a. Bodily experience -- b. Structural elements -- c. Basic logic -- The force dynamics image schema -- a. Bodily experience -- b. Structural elements -- c. Basic logic -- a. Source/introduction unit -- b. Obstacle/gap in the knowledge on the field under study -- c. Stating an intended goal/outlining the means -- d. Displaying results/forces that push toward a conclusion -- e. Reaching a goal/reaching a conclusion. 5. discourse is a form of motion along a path influenced by force dynamics: Ontological and epistemic correspondences -- 6. Scientific abstracts, paths and forces -- 7. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- References for examples taken from corpus -- Frames, constructions, and metaphors in Spanish FrameNet -- 1. Frame semantics and FrameNet(s) -- 2. Semantic annotation -- 3. Automatic semantic-role labelling -- 4. Building the Spanish Constructicon -- 5. Frames and metaphor -- 6. Next Steps for Spanish FrameNet -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Subject index. |
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Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2013 | ||
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Culinary linguistics [[electronic resource] ] : the chef's special / / edited by Cornelia Gerhardt, Maximiliane Frobenius, Susanne Ley |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | xvi, 344 p. : ill |
Disciplina | 420.1/47 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
GerhardtCornelia
FrobeniusMaximiliane Hucklenbroich-LeySusanne |
Collana | Culture and language use |
Soggetto topico |
English language - Etymology
English language Food Culture - Semiotic models Figures of speech |
ISBN | 90-272-7171-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910151820603321 |
Amsterdam, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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