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Informationen zum Autor Michael Stubbs is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Trier in Germany. He was Chair of BAAL (the British Association for Applied Linguistics) from 1988 to 1991. He has published widely on language in education, on text and discourse analysis, and on corpus linguistics. His previous books include Discourse Analysis (Blackwell 1983), Educational Linguistics (Blackwell 1986), and Text and Corpus Analysis (Blackwell 1996). Klappentext This book fills a gap in studies of meaning by providing detailed case studies of attested corpus data on the meanings of words and phrases. It places lexis and phraseology at the centre of semantics and pragmatics. Words and Phrases starts from traditional concepts of lexical semantics, including meaning as use, denotation and connotation, lexical field, sense relations, phraseology and collocation. It also uses innovative corpus data to explore these concepts with an exciting new technology. The main chapters are detailed case studies of words in collocations, words in texts and words in culture. Concluding chapters discuss the implications of corpus analysis for linguistic theory, especially lexico-grammar and theories of competence and performance. Zusammenfassung Provides detailed case studies of attested corpus data on the meanings of words and phrases. It places lexis and phraseology at the centre of semantics and pragmatics and looks at concepts of lexical semantics! including meaning as use! denotation and connotation! lexical field and sense relations. Inhaltsverzeichnis Figures, Concordances and Tables xi Acknowledgements xii Data Conventions and Terminology xiv Notes on Corpus Data and Software xvi Part I Introduction 1 1 Words in Use: Introductory Examples 3 1.1 Text and Discourse: Some Distinctions 5 1.2 Language, Action, Knowledge and Situation 6 1.3 Words and Expectations 7 1.4 Language, Logic and Truth 8 1.5 Common-sense Knowledge 9 1.6 Linguistic Conventions 11 1.7 Possible and Actual 13 1.8 Summary and Implications 19 1.9 Background and Further Reading 21 1.10 Topics for Further Study 2 Words, Phrases and Meanings: Basic Concepts 24 2.1 Terminology 24 2.2 Words: Word-forms and Lemmas 25 2.3 Collection 29 2.4 Words and Units of Meaning 30 2.5 Delexicalization 32 2.6 Denotion and Connection 34 2.7 Relational Lexical Semantics 35 2.8 Frequent Lexical Semantics 35 2.9 Two Examples 43 2.10 Summary and Implications 49 2.11 Background and Further Reading 50 2.12 Topics for Further Study Part II Case Studies 55 3 Words in Phrases 1: Concepts, Data and Methods 57 3.1 Background 57 3.2 Communicative Competence 60 3.3 Corpus Methods: Observing Patterns 61 3.4 Terminology 62 3.5 Corpus, Concordance, Data-base 66 3.6 The Cobuild Collections Data-base on CD-ROM 67 3.7 Data for Semantics and Pragmatics 71 3.8 Summary and Implications 72 3.9 Appendix 1: Measures of Statistical Significance 73 3.10 Appendix 2: Further Notes on the Data-Base 75 3.11 Background and Further Reading 77 3.12 Topics for Further Study 78 4 Words in Phrases 2: A Case Study of the Phraseology of English 80 4.1 Frequency of Phraseological Units 80 4.2 Strength of Attraction: word-forms, Lemmas, and Lexical Sets 81 4.3 Lexical Profiles: Comprehensive Coverage of data 84 4.4 A Model of Extended Lexical Units 87 4.5 Summary and I...
