Unpacking the Semantics of Coronaviruses’ “Referent Things”
A Corpus-Driven Systemic Functional Linguistic Analysis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10879641 |
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| Authors | Amir H Y Salama (0000-0001-9320-558X, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 69 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 49-90 |
| Publication date | 2023-01-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | WORD (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-7956 • E-ISSN: 2373-5112 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00437956.2022.2160147 |
| OpenAlex | W4361012566 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 15 |
The current study seeks to unpack the corpus-driven semantics of the “referent things” underlying the use of the lexical item coronaviruses in the data of The Coronavirus Corpus [Davies, Mark. 2019-. The Coronavirus Corpus. https://www.english-corpora.org/corona/]. Drawing on the Systemic Functional Linguistic (SFL) Model of the Cardiff Grammar, a concordance-bound analysis has been conducted on the item coronaviruses as expounding the structural element head (h) of its relevant nominal-group patterns in the corpus data. The Cardiff Grammar Model has systematically revealed the semantics of coronaviruses’ referent things as realized by corpus-driven syntactic patterns of eleven coronaviruses-expounded nominal groups in two respects in the corpus data. First, the item coronaviruses has been empirically shown to have three dominant types of referent: (i) a particularized referent has been expressed through the system of PARTICULARIZATION, (ii) a substantive referent through QUANTIFICATION (selection by quantity, selection by typicity, and selection by representation), and (iii) cultural-classification referent through the two overlapping systems of CLASSIFICATION and SELECTION (selection by quality and selection by qualification). Second, these referents demonstrated two aspects of semantic representation via participant-role (PR) conflation: (i) a cultural-classification referent assumes the complementary participant roles of Identifier, Actor, and Patient; (ii) a particularized substantive referent has the sole PR of Agent
Grammar · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Politics · Referent · Representation (politics · Selection (genetic algorithm · Semantics (computer science · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Philosophy · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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