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Author:   John Flowerdew (City University of Hong Kong) ,  Richard W. Forest (Central Michigan University)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.30cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.450kg
ISBN:  

9781108403894

ISBN 10:   1108403891
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   18 May 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of 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; References; 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.

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'Powerfully evidenced throughout with reference to a wide range of corpus sources, this is a very richly textured book of singular importance to our understanding of a core feature of discourse organisation, extending previous work with real insight and originality.' Ronald Carter, University of Nottingham 'This corpus-based description of the grammatical and discourse features of signaling nouns provides important insights into their use, and makes a critical contribution to exploring cohesion and coherence in texts. It's well worth reading!' Peter H. Fries, Professor Emeritus, Central Michigan University 'This book will be a valuable reference to those who are interested in the systematic functions of nouns and language educators within academic writing and reading.' Kevin Jiang, Functions of Language 'This book is a welcome addition to Cambridge University Press's excellent Studies in English Language series. For John Flowerdew it represents the culmination of work on a set of nouns that he first identified and named in 1994 and on which, often with Ph.D. students and other research associates, he has been working ever since.' Susan Hunston, English Language and Linguistics

'Powerfully evidenced throughout with reference to a wide range of corpus sources, this is a very richly textured book of singular importance to our understanding of a core feature of discourse organisation, extending previous work with real insight and originality.' Ronald Carter, University of Nottingham 'This corpus-based description of the grammatical and discourse features of signaling nouns provides important insights into their use, and makes a critical contribution to exploring cohesion and coherence in texts. It's well worth reading!' Peter H. Fries, Professor Emeritus, Central Michigan University 'This book will be a valuable reference to those who are interested in the systematic functions of nouns and language educators within academic writing and reading.' Kevin Jiang, Functions of Language

Author Information

John Flowerdew is a Professor in the Department of English at City University of Hong Kong. Richard W. Forest is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Central Michigan University.

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