Nouns in Search of a Context: A Study of Nouns With Both Open- And Closed-System Characteristics

Ivanič, Roz

doi:10.1515/iral.1991.29.2.93

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“…Los distintos autores que han tratado de describir la unidad que funciona como antecedente en este mecanismo discursivo presentan, también, diferentes posturas al respecto. Así, gran parte de los autores establecen la cláusula como unidad mínima que puede encapsular una etiqueta discursiva (Francis, 1994;Schmid, 2000;Consten, Knees y Schwarz-Friesel, 2007: 83;Borreguero, 2006: 81), en tanto que algunos aceptan la posibilidad de una unidad inferior (Ivanič, 1991), como el sintagma nominal (González Ruiz, 2009). En este punto, este artículo se alinea con la postura de los segundos autores.…”

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Las etiquetas discursivas: del mantenimiento a la construcción del referente

Samaniego¹

2013

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ResumenLas etiquetas discursivas se definen en este artículo como sintagmas nominales anafóricos que condensan el contenido de una o más predicaciones del discurso y las categorizan o conceptualizan de acuerdo con el plan del discurso elaborado por el emisor (ej. este fenó-meno, tal argumento). El objetivo de este artículo es caracterizar el funcionamiento anafórico de las etiquetas discursivas. Para ello, se parte de un análisis manual de corpus con el propósito de identificar las diferentes unidades sintáctico-discursivas que pueden funcionar como antecedente textual de una etiqueta discursiva. Una vez delimitadas e identificadas estas unidades, se analiza la capacidad de cada una de ellas para funcionar como expresiones referenciales, siguiendo la concepción de referencia definida por la gramática cognitiva, que gira en torno a la noción de anclaje (grounding). El análisis realizado permite, por una parte, situar el etiquetaje discursivo en el continuo entre las relaciones de anáfora directa y las de anáfora indirecta; y por otra, diferenciar tres posibilidades de funcionamiento cognitivo de las etiquetas discursivas (mantenimiento del referente, reificaAbstract Discourse

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Las etiquetas discursivas: del mantenimiento a la construcción del referente

Samaniego¹

2013

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“…As will be shown in the review of relevant research below, to answer this question many researchers have sought to identify a set of open class lexical items, including general nouns (Halliday & Hasan, 1976), type 3 vocabulary (Winter, 1982), anaphoric nouns (Francis, 1986), labels (Francis, 1994) carrier nouns (Ivanic, 1991), shell nouns (Schmid, 2000), and signalling nouns (Flowerdew, 2006(Flowerdew, & 2010. However, I argue here that complex anaphora is not in practice performed by open class lexical heads but by a set of closed class items which accompany them.…”

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Complex anaphora with this: variation between three written argumentative genres

Crompton¹

2017

Corpora

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The concept of complex anaphora -'nominal expressions referring to propositionally structured referents ' (Consten et al., 2007) -makes a useful distinction between a textstructuring function, one important to argumentative text, and the forms used to accomplish the function. Because complex anaphors often contain the demonstrative this, the contexts of all this tokens in three corpora of written argumentation -research articles, editorials, and student essays -were analysed in order to identify instances of complex anaphora. While the frequencies of pronoun use for complex anaphora were similar, the frequencies of determiner use varied, as did placement of anaphors within their host sentence, determiners appearing non-initially much more often than pronouns in all corpora, particularly editorials. Overall, there was greater variation between the patterns of use in research articles and editorials than between these and student essays.

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“…Shell noun, also named as general noun [1], anaphoric noun [2] and carrier noun [3], draws the attention of many researchers in recent years. However, no matter what the names are, these nouns (such as fact, problem, type, method and issue) have one characteristic in common: they both have a fixed meaning and a changeable meaning.…”

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“…However, no matter what the names are, these nouns (such as fact, problem, type, method and issue) have one characteristic in common: they both have a fixed meaning and a changeable meaning. And the changeable meaning of a shell noun needs to be referred from the context it appears in [3]. From previous studies, it can be found that there are few papers comparing shell nouns used by English as a second or foreign language learners from two or more different countries.…”

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A Qualitative Analysis of Shell Nouns Used by University Students from China and Sweden

Gao¹,

Zhang²

2017

IJLLL

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Abstract-Based on language transfer theory, this study tries to explain the differences in shell nouns used by Chinese and Swedish university students from the perspective of linguistics and culture. From the aspect of linguistic features of Chinese and Swedish, we find that methods of texture, popularity of nouns and sentence patterns lead to the differences in shell nouns. As for cultural differences, the two contrary thinking patterns can explain why Chinese and Swedish tend to use shells in distinct manners. We hope that the results of this study could provide useful insights for the teaching and learning of shell nouns.

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Nouns in Search of a Context: A Study of Nouns With Both Open- And Closed-System Characteristics

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Las etiquetas discursivas: del mantenimiento a la construcción del referente

Las etiquetas discursivas: del mantenimiento a la construcción del referente

Complex anaphora with this: variation between three written argumentative genres

A Qualitative Analysis of Shell Nouns Used by University Students from China and Sweden

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