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The Functions of ‹General Nouns›
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The Functions of ‹General Nouns› : Theory and Corpus Analysis

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ISBN-10 3631747586
ISBN-13 9783631747582
Edition New
Publisher Peter Lang AG
Imprint Peter Lang AG
Country of Manufacture DE
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Oct 19th, 2018
Print length 258 Pages
Weight 734 grams
Ksh 10,500.00
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The study provides a comprehensive description of ‹general nouns› from a micro- and macro-linguistic perspective. A corpus of different spoken and written genres is the basis for a detailed quantitative and qualitative analysis, which shows that ‘general nouns’ fulfil various genre-specific functions.

The author critically discusses the concept of ‹general nouns›, which Halliday/Hasan introduced in their approach to lexical cohesion (1976), and she provides a comprehensive overview of these nouns from a micro- and a macro-linguistic perspective. For the empirical analysis, the author compiled a corpus, which allows statements about a medium- and genre-specific use of ‹general nouns›. For this purpose, she developed an analytical tool, which takes into account formal and semantic features. The major outcome of the corpus analysis is that ‹general nouns› are much more flexible in form and function than Halliday/Hasan assumed and, most importantly, that they fulfil genre-specific functions some of which have not systematically been associated with lexical cohesion.


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