@article{Orna-Montesinos_2011, title={Words and patterns: lexico-grammatical patterns and semantic relations in domain-specific discourses}, url={https://raei.ua.es/article/view/2011-n24-words-and-patterns-lexico-grammatical-patterns-and-sema}, DOI={10.14198/raei.2011.24.09}, abstractNote={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.}, number={24}, journal={Alicante Journal of English Studies / Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses}, author={Orna-Montesinos, Concepción}, year={2011}, month={Nov.}, pages={213–233} }