Words and Phrases

Backdrop. Example 4. Lexical Profile for Doses. A Model of Extended Lexical Units. Example 5. Lexical Profile for Undergo. Example 6. Lexical Profile for Chopped. Summary and Implications. Background and Further Reading. Topics for Further Study. 5. Words in Texts 1: Words, Phrases and Text Cohesion. Words and Co--Text. Routine and Creativity. Variable Phrases and Textual Cohesion. Antonyms and Synonyms. Discourse Prosodies. Lexical Cohesion: Textual Examples. Example 1. Just Large Enough to See with the Naked Eye. Example 2. Causing Untold Damage. Example 3. Causing Growing Pains and Undergoing a Transition. Example 4. Undergoing Rapid Star Formation. Collocations and Coherence. Summary and Implications. Background and Further Reading. Topics for Further Study. 6. Words in Texts 2: A Case Study of a Short Story. Public Data and Replicable Experiments. Lexis and Text Structure. Analysis 1: Frequency Statistics (Descending Frequency Order). Frequency of Function Words: Statistics. Interpretation. Frequency of Content Words: Statistics. Interpretation. Analysis 2: Frequency Statistics (Keywords). Analysis 3: Frequency Statistics (Order of Occurrence). Statistics. Interpretation. Analysis 4: A Vocabulary--Management Profile. Types and Tokens, Vocabulary and Text. Youmansa Method. Eveline. A Further Note on Replication. Limitations on the Analysis. Summary and Implications. Background and Further Reading. Topics for Further Study. 7. Words in Culture 1: Case Studies of Cultural Keywords. Data and Citation Conventions. Text and Discourse. Case Study 1: Ethnic, Racial and Tribal. Case Study 2: Heritage and Care. Keyword: Heritage. Keyword: Care. Keyword: Community. Case Study 3: Proper Standards. Keyword: Standard. Keyword: Proper. Keyword: Trendy. Case Study 4: Little Red Riding Hood. Discursive Formations. Summary and Implications. Background and Further Reading. Topics for Further Study. 8. Words in Culture 2: Case Studies of Loan Words in English. Data. The Etymological Fallacy. Language Change. Terminology. Words, Politics and National Stereotypes. Fields of Knowledge and Text Types. A Case Study of German Loan Words in English. Frequency in the Vocabulary Versus Frequency in Texts. False Friends: Flak, Blitz and Angst. The OED and Cultural Keywords. A Further Note on Vocabulary and Text. Summary and Implications. Background and Further Reading. Topics for Further Study. Implications. 9. Words, Phrases and Connotations: On Lexico--Grammar and Evaluative Language. Connotations. Verbs, Discourse Prosodies and Point of View. Example 1. I Was Accosted in the Street by a Strange. Example 2. Fears Lurking Just Below the Surface. Example 3. Loiter and Other Verbs. Inter--Collocations: The Example of Street. A Lexico--Syntactic Example: Make Onea s Way Somewhere. A Note on Syntax. A Cognitive View. A Syntactic Example: Be--Passives and Get--Passives. Summary and Implications. Background and Further Reading. Topics for Further Study. 10. Data and Dualisms: On Corpus Methods and Pluralist Models. Principles. Problems?. Dualisms and Monisms. Cartesian Dualism. Monism: Version 1. Monism: Version 2. The Saussurian Paradox. Pluralist Positions. Brute and Institutional Facts. Physical, Psychological and Social. Worlds 1, 2 and 3. A Pluralist Model. Performance Data, Corpora and Routine Behaviour. Summary and Implications. Background and Further Reading. References. Name Index. Subject Index.