Collocations and colligations associated with discourse functions of unspecific anaphoric nouns
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12621920 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nozomi Yamasaki (Kansai Gaidai University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 75-98 |
| Publication date | 2008-02-21 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Corpus Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1384-6655 • E-ISSN: 1569-9811 |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/ijcl.13.1.05yam |
| OpenAlex | W2156594369 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
This paper investigates how particular collocations and colligations are associated with discourse functions of unspecific anaphoric nouns. Unspecific anaphoric nouns such as problem , reason , idea and fault , called labels here, encapsulate and replace a preceding stretch of discourse. Such nouns used as a cohesive device also perform an evaluative function by recategorizing their specific meanings. Labels prefer particular syntactic environments according to the discourse function that is highlighted. Corpus-based research also reveals that unspecific nouns differ in their favoured syntactic pattern and in the favoured premodifiers used in each pattern. Differences between writing and speech in collocations and colligations associated with labels are also attributed to the different discourse functions they realize in each genre. paper argues that discourse dimensions should be brought into collocational and colligational descriptions of words that have discourse-managing functions
Biology · Function (biology · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Noun · Computer Science · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · linguistics and terminology studies · Philosophy · Psychology · Artificial Intelligence
| Citations per year | 0.45 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2024 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |