Chapter 1 Introduction
1. 1 Background of this study
1. 2 Objectives of this study
1. 3 Significance of this study
1. 4 Terminologicalissues
1. 5 Organization of this thesis
Chapter2 Theoretical Background
2. 1 Disentangling the notions of phraseology
2. 2 Major theoretical framework
2. 3 Previous studies of phraseology
2. 4 Summary
Chapter 3 Research Design and Methodology
3. 1 Analytical framework
3. 2 Corpus to be used
3. 3 Instruments, tools, work procedures
3. 4 Summary
Chapter 4 A New Computing Method for Extracting Contiguous PSs
4. 1 Previous methods for extracting PSs
4. 2 Features of current statistics-based measures
4. 3 Procedures for data extraction
4. 4 Pseudo-bigram transformation
4. 5 A new algorithm for normalization: plobability-weighted average
4. 6 Evaluation
4. 7 Summary
Chapter 5 Overall Frequency Distributions of PSs
5. 1 Distributions of PSs of various lengths
5. 2 Distributions of PSs of different grammatical types
5. 3 Distributions of PSs of primary discourse functions
5. 4 Summary
Chapter 6 Experiential PSs
6. 1 Notions of experiential PSs
6. 2 Semantic categories of experiential PSs
6. 3 Experiential PSs for specifying processes and actions
6. 4 Experiential PSs for identifying entities, notions and activities
6. 5 Experiential PSs for specifying attributes
6. 6 Experiential PSs for specifying time and space
6. 7 Vagueness expressions
6. 8 Discussion and summary
Chapter 7 Stance PSs
7. 1 Notions of stance PSs
7. 2 Lexico-grammatical marking of stance
7. 3 Structural categories of stance PSs
7. 4 Adverbial stance PSs
7. 5 Overt subject stance PSs
7. 6 It-extraposed stance PSs
7. 7 Null subject stance PSs
7. 8 Discussion-and summary
Chapter 8 Orgaruzational PSs
8. 1 Notions of organizationalPSs
8. 2 Functional categories of organizational PSs
8. 3 Discourse acts PSs .
8. 4 Meta-discourse PSs
8. 5 General logical signals
8. 6 Discussion and summary
Chapter 9 Conclusions andlmplications
9. 1 Summary of major findings
9. 2 Implications
9. 3 Limitations of this study
References
Appendices
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