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- Title
Establishing the phraseological profile of a text type: The construction of meaning in academic book reviews.
- Authors
Römer, Ute
- Abstract
Starting from the observation that meaning does not primarily reside in individual words but in the phrase, this paper focuses on the examination of recurring phrases in language. It introduces a new analytical model that leads corpus researchers to a profile of the central phraseological items in a selected text or text collection. In this paper, the model is applied to a 3.5-million word corpus of online academic book reviews that represents part of the specialized discourse of the global community of linguists. This demonstrates how the model facilitates the study of the occurrence and distribution of the central phraseological items in linguistic book reviews, and how it helps to determine the extent of the phraseological tendency of language.
- Subjects
PHRASEOLOGY; SYNTAX (Grammar); FOREIGN language education; LINGUISTICS; BOOK reviewing
- Publication
English Text Construction, 2010, Vol 3, Issue 1, p95
- ISSN
1874-8767
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1075/etc.3.1.06rom