Describing the extended meanings of lexical cohesion in a corpus of SARS spoken discourse

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 325-344

  Cheng, Winnie ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Colligation; Collocation; Core; Extended units of meaning; Hong Kong Corpus of Spoken English; Lexical cohesion; Lexical item; Semantic preference; Semantic prosody

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248704516     PISSN: 13846655     EISSN: 15699811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/ijcl.11.3.06che     Document Type: Conference Paper

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