Words and patterns: lexico-grammatical patterns and semantic relations in domain-specific discourses

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  • Concepción Orna-Montesinos

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14198/raei.2011.24.09

Keywords:

Lexico-grammatical patterns, Hyponymy, Meronymy, Semantic relations, Domain-specific discourses

Abstract

The underlying assumption of this study is the understanding of a specialized term as a summary of disciplinary knowledge, formalized at a textual level in the contextual relations which structure disciplinary lexical knowledge and are therefore essential for the successful interpretation of a text. With that aim this paper carries the analysis of the lexico-grammatical patterns which signal the hyponymy and meronymy relations of the term building, a key disciplinary concept in a corpus of construction engineering textbooks, using the WordNet database for reference. The linguistic analysis of the repertoire of lexico-grammatical patterns employed brings to the fore the dual role of hyponymy and meronymy as both semantic and metalinguistic discourse-organizing lexical resources, key in the rhetorical organization of the discourse of this discipline.

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15-11-2011

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Orna-Montesinos, Concepción. 2011. “Words and Patterns: Lexico-Grammatical Patterns and Semantic Relations in Domain-Specific Discourses”. Alicante Journal of English Studies / Revista Alicantina De Estudios Ingleses, no. 24 (November):213-33. https://doi.org/10.14198/raei.2011.24.09.

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No. 24 (2011): Special Issue: Words on words and dictionaries

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