Illocutionary Shell Nouns in English Contributor(s): Gotti, Maurizio (Other), Vergaro, Carla (Author) |
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ISBN: 3034330693 ISBN-13: 9783034330695 Publisher: Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic P OUR PRICE: $122.17 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Foreign Language Study | German - Language Arts & Disciplines - Medical |
Series: Linguistic Insights |
Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6" W x 9" (1.33 lbs) 322 pages |
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Publisher Description: The volume deals with the topic of illocutionary shell nouns in English, i.e. nouns that encapsulate a content that is usually expressed in a complement or in a separate sentence or clause, and report or characterize it as a specific speech act. The book reports a usage-based study of the complementation patterns in a corpus of 335 illocutionary nouns distributed across the five Searlean classes of assertive, commissive, directive, expressive, and declarative nouns. The investigation aims to verify the association between the meaning of these nouns and their complementation patterns, and between their semantic similarity and the similarity in the distribution of complementation patterns. |