Form Meaning And Function In Collocation

Author : Haoda Feng
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000046953

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Form, Meaning and Function in Collocation by Haoda Feng Pdf

The issue of differences between translational language and native-speaker language has become a topic of increasing interest in linguistics and Translation Studies (TS). One of the primary tasks in this research area is to employ a corpus approach and analyse collocations with authentic language data by comparing comparable corpora consisting of translated and native-speaker texts. Collocation in linguistics and TS refers to the relationship of co-occurrence between lexical items. The book shows that examining the use of collocations constitutes an integral part in assessing the naturalness of second language (L2) use, and therefore can be a valid measure to make a distinction between translational language and native-speaker language. Nevertheless, the role of collocation has not been given enough attention or discussed systematically in TS and, to date, there are hardly any translation theorists who have clarified the mechanism of collocation in TS, by which translators acquire receptive and productive knowledge of collocations in their L2. In addition, previous research in this area is largely confined to Indo-European languages, resulting in a lack of empirical evidence involving Asian languages. This book therefore attempts to bridge the gap in the literature and constitute an integral part in the research area.

Author : Paweł Szudarski,Samuel Barclay
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781788923767

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Vocabulary Theory, Patterning and Teaching by Paweł Szudarski,Samuel Barclay Pdf

This book presents the current state of knowledge in the vibrant and diverse field of vocabulary studies, reporting innovative empirical investigations, summarising the latest research, and showcasing topics for future investigation. The chapters are organised around the key themes of theorising and measuring vocabulary knowledge, formulaic language, and learning and teaching vocabulary. Written by world-leading vocabulary experts from across the globe, the contributions present a variety of research perspectives and methodologies, offering insights from cutting-edge work into vocabulary, its learning and use. The book will be essential reading for postgraduate students and researchers interested in the area of second language acquisition, with a particular focus on vocabulary, as well as to those working in the broader fields of applied linguistics, TESOL and English studies.

Author : Alexander Gelbukh,Olga Kolesnikova
Publisher : Springer
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-09
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783642287718

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Semantic Analysis of Verbal Collocations with Lexical Functions by Alexander Gelbukh,Olga Kolesnikova Pdf

This book is written for both linguists and computer scientists working in the field of artificial intelligence as well as to anyone interested in intelligent text processing. Lexical function is a concept that formalizes semantic and syntactic relations between lexical units. Collocational relation is a type of institutionalized lexical relations which holds between the base and its partner in a collocation. Knowledge of collocation is important for natural language processing because collocation comprises the restrictions on how words can be used together. The book shows how collocations can be annotated with lexical functions in a computer readable dictionary - allowing their precise semantic analysis in texts and their effective use in natural language applications including parsers, high quality machine translation, periphrasis system and computer-aided learning of lexica. The books shows how to extract collocations from corpora and annotate them with lexical functions automatically. To train algorithms, the authors created a dictionary of lexical functions containing more than 900 Spanish disambiguated and annotated examples which is a part of this book. The obtained results show that machine learning is feasible to achieve the task of automatic detection of lexical functions.

Author : Sabine Bartsch
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Collocation (Linguistics)
ISBN : 3823358936

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Structural and Functional Properties of Collocations in English by Sabine Bartsch Pdf

Author : Chunyan Wang
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781315473727

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Patterns and Meanings of Intensifiers in Chinese Learner Corpora by Chunyan Wang Pdf

Intensification plays a major role in spoken and written interaction, enabling the writer or speaker to express different levels of commitment. This book explores the patterns and meanings of intensifiers in Chinese learner English by ways of comparison with native English. The study is conducted within the theoretical framework of Firthian contextual theory of meaning, Sinclairian model of Extended Units of Meaning (EUM) and Hunston's pattern grammar. The method of contrastive inter-language analysis (CIA) is adopted and the intensifier collocations in learner English and native English are explored by means of quantitative and qualitative analyses of corpora data. This book is the first attempt to investigate the patterning and meaning features of intensifiers systematically with the corpora data in Chinese learner English. Readers will obtain a relatively complete picture of how Chinese learners use intensifiers to realize their attitudinal meanings.

Author : Cordula Glass
Publisher : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783823301233

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Collocations, Creativity and Constructions by Cordula Glass Pdf

Approaching collocations from a usage-based perspective, this study investigates how the development of collocational proficiency in first and second language attainment could be explained. Against the background of recent approaches in cognitive linguistics such as construction grammar and Complex Adaptive Systems it argues that collocations should not be regarded as idiosyncratic phraseological items, which, depending on their degree of fixedness and semantic opaqueness, can be classified along a gradient of idiomaticity. Thus, this study regards collocations as dynamic linguistic phenomena, which could be seen as subject to constant change rather than more or less static combinations with an additional level of syntagmatic and paradigmatic restrictions. Furthermore it explores how creative changes and alternations of collocations can be used to learn more about a speakers cognitive processing of these phraseological phenomena and how this process might be influenced by language external factors such as age, education or context.

Author : Ludmila Veselovská
Publisher : Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9788024454900

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Form and Functions in English Grammar by Ludmila Veselovská Pdf

The monograph illustrates the language specific realization of plausibly universal principles of language structure. The study attempts to cover the most basic (regular) parts of English grammar as a whole consistently, within a single compatible framework, but at the same time to present empirically based arguments in favour of specific analyses. She utilizes as often as possible standard scientific argumentation leading to the most generally accepted and best supported analysis of the chosen phenomena. The study is intended for Czech academic audience and therefore it also contains several typologically relevant comparison of English and Czech structures.

Author : Camilla Bardel,Christina Lindqvist,Batia Laufer
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781300884071

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L2 vocabulary acquisition, knowledge and use by Camilla Bardel,Christina Lindqvist,Batia Laufer Pdf

This book is intended for researchers and students in the field of second language (L2) acquisition. As its title suggests, the book discusses L2 vocabulary acquisition, knowledge and use, and examines them from the perspectives of assessment and corpus analysis. The chapters also address some additional central research issues: the role of word frequency in the input, the difference between single words and multi-word units, and the distinction between vocabulary of oral and written language. The first three chapters of the book present critical reviews of different aspects of vocabulary acquisition. The other four chapters contain empirical studies that relate to the central themes of the book. The data in the studies draw on a variety of source and target languages: English, French, Italian, Swedish, Hebrew and Japanese. The book offers some new insights into the field of vocabulary and suggests avenues of research.

Author : Meichun Liu,Chunyu Kit,Qi Su
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 913 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-25
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030811976

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Chinese Lexical Semantics by Meichun Liu,Chunyu Kit,Qi Su Pdf

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 21st Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, CLSW 2020, held in Hong Kong, China in May 2020.Due to COVID-19, the conference was held virtually. The 76 full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 233 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: Lexical semantics and general linguistics, AI, Big Data, and NLP, Cognitive Science and experimental studies.

Author : Ton van der Wouden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2002-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134773336

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Negative Contexts by Ton van der Wouden Pdf

This research emphasizes semantic, syntactic and pragmatic considerations illustrating a wide array of linguistic approaches. Written from within the theoretical framework of Generalized Quantifiers, the three main areas considered are collocations, polarity items and multiple negations.

Author : Helena Halmari,Tuija Virtanen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2005-02-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027294746

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Persuasion Across Genres by Helena Halmari,Tuija Virtanen Pdf

Persuasion, in its various linguistic forms, enters our lives daily. Politicians and the news media attempt to change or confirm our beliefs, while advertisers try to bend our tastes toward buying their products. Persuasion goes on in courtrooms, universities, and the business world. Persuasion pervades interpersonal relations in all social spheres, public and private. And persuasion reaches us via a large number of genres and their intricate interplay.This volume brings together nine chapters which investigate some of the typical genres of modern persuasion. Using both quantitative and qualitative methods, the authors explore the linguistic features of successful (and unsuccessful) persuasion and the reasons for the variation of persuasive choices as realized in various genres: business negotiations, judicial argumentation, political speech, advertising, newspaper editorials, and news writing. In the final chapter, the editors tie together the two themes — persuasion and genres — by proposing an Intergenre Model. This model assumes that a powerful force behind generic evolution is the perennial need for implicit persuasion.

Author : 苗丽霞
Publisher : 上海交通大学出版社有限公司
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9787313190680

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词汇知识、工作记忆与二语阅读理解的关联性研究（英文版） by 苗丽霞 Pdf

本书基于阅读理解能力多成分观理论视域，聚焦词汇知识和工作记忆这两个重要 的阅读能力成分，采用纸笔测试和反应时等实证研究 方 法，以 中 国 外 语 语 境 下 中 级 水 平英语学习者为受试，考察这两个变量对阅读理解能 力 的 单 独 作 用 及 其 交 互 性 影 响。 本书揭示了二语阅读理解中词汇知识的多维性本质特征，阐明了工作记忆及其加工和 存储成分在不同层次阅读理解过程中的作用机制以及二 语 阅 读 理 解 过 程 中 语 言 和 认 知成分间的互动机制。 另一方面，本书的研究发现 为 二 语 阅 读 教 学 提 供 了 教 学 启 示， 阅读教师需要关注阅读理解过程中三个维度的词汇知识及其不同影响，以及学习者个 体的认知因素在词汇知识和阅读理解关系中的协变作用。 本书适合二语习得研究者、 二语教学实践者和应用语言学方向的研究生参阅。

Author : Roberta Corrigan,Edith A. Moravcsik,Hamid Ouali,Kathleen Wheatley
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009-05-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027290168

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Formulaic Language by Roberta Corrigan,Edith A. Moravcsik,Hamid Ouali,Kathleen Wheatley Pdf

This book is the second of the two-volume collection of papers on formulaic language. The collection is among the first in the field. The authors of the papers in this volume represent a diverse group of international scholars in linguistics and psychology. The language data analyzed come from a variety of languages, including Arabic, Japanese, Polish, and Spanish, and include analyses of styles and genres within these languages. While the first volume focuses on the very definition of linguistic formulae and on their grammatical, semantic, stylistic, and historical aspects, the second volume explores how formulae are acquired and lost by speakers of a language, in what way they are psychologically real, and what their functions in discourse are. Since most of the papers are readily accessible to readers with only basic familiarity with linguistics, the book may be used in courses on discourse structure, pragmatics, semantics, language acquisition, and syntax, as well as being a resource in linguistic research.

Author : G.R. Liu,Y.T. Gu
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005-12-05
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781402034688

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An Introduction to Meshfree Methods and Their Programming by G.R. Liu,Y.T. Gu Pdf

The finite difference method (FDM) hasbeen used tosolve differential equation systems for centuries. The FDM works well for problems of simple geometry and was widely used before the invention of the much more efficient, robust finite element method (FEM). FEM is now widely used in handling problems with complex geometry. Currently, we are using and developing even more powerful numerical techniques aiming to obtain more accurate approximate solutions in a more convenient manner for even more complex systems. The meshfree or meshless method is one such phenomenal development in the past decade, and is the subject of this book. There are many MFree methods proposed so far for different applications. Currently, three monographs on MFree methods have been published. Mesh Free Methods, Moving Beyond the Finite Element Method d by GR Liu (2002) provides a systematic discussion on basic theories, fundamentals for MFree methods, especially on MFree weak-form methods. It provides a comprehensive record of well-known MFree methods and the wide coverage of applications of MFree methods to problems of solids mechanics (solids, beams, plates, shells, etc.) as well as fluid mechanics. The Meshless Local Petrov-Galerkin (MLPG) Method d by Atluri and Shen (2002) provides detailed discussions of the meshfree local Petrov-Galerkin (MLPG) method and itsvariations. Formulations and applications of MLPG are well addressed in their book.

Author : Steven E. Runge
Publisher : Hendrickson Publishers
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9781598565836

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Discourse Grammar of the Greek New Testament by Steven E. Runge Pdf

In "Discourse Grammar of the Greek New Testament," Steve Runge introduces a function-based approach to language, exploring New Testament Greek grammatical conventions based upon the discourse functions they accomplish. Runge's approach has less to do with the specifics of language and more to do with how humans are wired to process it. The approach is cross-linguistic. Runge looks at how all languages operate before he focuses on Greek. He examines linguistics in general to simplify the analytical process and explain how and why we communicate as we do, leading to a more accurate description of the Greek text. The approach is also function-based--meaning that Runge gives primary attention to describing the tasks accomplished by each discourse feature. This volume does not reinvent previous grammars or supplant previous work on the New Testament. Instead, Runge reviews, clarifies, and provides a unified description of each of the discourse features. That makes it useful for beginning Greek students, pastors, and teachers, as well as for advanced New Testament scholars looking for a volume which synthesizes the varied sub-disciplines of New Testament discourse analysis. With examples taken straight from the "Lexham Discourse Greek New Testament," this volume helps readers discover a great deal about what the text of the New Testament communicates, filling a large gap in New Testament scholarship. Each of the 18 chapters contains: - An introduction and overview for each discourse function - A conventional explanation of that function in easy-to-understand language - A complete discourse explanation - Numerous examples of how that particular discourse function is used in the Greek New Testament - A section of application - Dozens of examples, taken straight from the Lexham Discourse Greek New Testament - Careful research, with citation to both Greek grammars and linguistic literature - Suggested reading list for continued learning and additional research