Signalling nouns in English : a corpus-based discourse approach / John Flowerdew, City University of Hong Kong, Richard W. Forest, Central Michigan University.

Call Number	425/.54
Author	Flowerdew, John, author.
Title	Signalling nouns in English : a corpus-based discourse approach / John Flowerdew, City University of Hong Kong, Richard W. Forest, Central Michigan University.
Physical Description	1 online resource (xviii, 286 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Series	Studies in English language
Notes	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Contents	1. Introduction -- 2. Grammatical features of signalling nouns -- 3. Semantic features -- 4. Discourse features -- 5. Criteria for determining what constitutes a signalling noun in this study -- 6. Corpus, methodology, annotation system, and reporting of the data -- 7. Set of examples -- 8. Overview of signalling noun distributions in the corpus -- 9. Overview of semantic categories -- 10. Overview of lexicogrammatical and discourse pattern frequencies -- 11. Conclusion -- Appendix A. The overall structure of the corpus -- Appendix B. List of texts that make up the corpus -- Appendix C. Lemmatised SNs in descending order according to normalised frequency -- Appendix D. Non-lemmatised SNs in descending order according to normalised frequency -- Appendix E. Lemmatised SNs in alphabetical order -- Appendix F. Non-lemmatised SNs in alphabetical order -- Appendix G. Frequency of SNs in different semantic categories.
Summary	Signalling nouns (SNs) are abstract nouns like 'fact', 'idea', 'problem' and 'result', which are non-specific in their meaning when considered in isolation and specific in their meaning by reference to their linguistic context. SNs contribute to cohesion and evaluation in discourse. This work offers the first book-length study of the SN phenomenon to treat the functional and discourse features of the category as primary. Using a balanced corpus of authentic data, the book explores the lexicogrammatical and discourse features of SNs in academic journal articles, textbooks, and lectures across a range of disciplines in the natural and social sciences. The book will be essential reading for researchers and advanced students of semantics, syntax, corpus linguistics and discourse analysis, in addition to scholars and teachers in the field of English for academic purposes.
Added Author	Forest, Richard, author.
Subject	English language Noun. English language Parts of speech. English language Grammar. Lexical grammar.
Multimedia	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139135405

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Summary	Signalling nouns (SNs) are abstract nouns like 'fact', 'idea', 'problem' and 'result', which are non-specific in their meaning when considered in isolation and specific in their meaning by reference to their linguistic context. SNs contribute to cohesion and evaluation in discourse. This work offers the first book-length study of the SN phenomenon to treat the functional and discourse features of the category as primary. Using a balanced corpus of authentic data, the book explores the lexicogrammatical and discourse features of SNs in academic journal articles, textbooks, and lectures across a range of disciplines in the natural and social sciences. The book will be essential reading for researchers and advanced students of semantics, syntax, corpus linguistics and discourse analysis, in addition to scholars and teachers in the field of English for academic purposes.
Notes	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Contents	1. Introduction -- 2. Grammatical features of signalling nouns -- 3. Semantic features -- 4. Discourse features -- 5. Criteria for determining what constitutes a signalling noun in this study -- 6. Corpus, methodology, annotation system, and reporting of the data -- 7. Set of examples -- 8. Overview of signalling noun distributions in the corpus -- 9. Overview of semantic categories -- 10. Overview of lexicogrammatical and discourse pattern frequencies -- 11. Conclusion -- Appendix A. The overall structure of the corpus -- Appendix B. List of texts that make up the corpus -- Appendix C. Lemmatised SNs in descending order according to normalised frequency -- Appendix D. Non-lemmatised SNs in descending order according to normalised frequency -- Appendix E. Lemmatised SNs in alphabetical order -- Appendix F. Non-lemmatised SNs in alphabetical order -- Appendix G. Frequency of SNs in different semantic categories.
Subject	English language Noun. English language Parts of speech. English language Grammar. Lexical grammar.
Multimedia	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139135405