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English Abstract Nouns as Conceptual Shells: From Corpus to Cognition
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Based on a systematic analysis of a very large corpus, this book introduces a conceptual and terminological framework for the linguistic description of abstract nouns. The uses and meanings of 670 abstract English nouns are described and their semantic, pragmatic, rhetorical, textual and cognitive functions are discussed, always with reference to authentic corpus data. This way a link between the corpus method and functional and cognitive theories of language is established. The book includes an appendix giving statistical information on the lexico-grammatical usage of the 670 nouns.
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“The productivity of this pattern lies in the fact that it both facilitates cataphoric linkage (interactive function) and the expression of the writer's stance (interactional function), although Benitez-Castro & Thompson (2015) comment on the paucity of studies into the cataphoric use of these nouns.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Schmid, H.-J.
- Venue
- De Gruyter eBooks
- Publisher
- DE GRUYTER
- Published
- 2000-12-31
- OpenAlex
- W648412724
- Cited by
- 604
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 15 · 2025: 28 · 2024: 65 · 2023: 27 · 2022: 48 · 2021: 33 · 2020: 30 · 2019: 54 · 2018: 64 · 2017: 21 · 2016: 36 · 2015: 58 · 2014: 26 · 2013: 15 · 2012: 12
- FWCI
- 5.28
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- De Gruyter eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › linguistics and terminology studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
- Social Sciences › Linguistics and Language › Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
- Keywords
- abstract nouns, English noun, semantic functions, pragmatic functions, rhetorical functions, text functions, cognitive function, corpus linguistics, functional linguistics, cognitive linguistics, word meaning
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