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THE FUNCTIONS OF GENERAL NOUNS - VERA BENNINGHO...

The author critically discusses the concept of ¿general nouns¿  which Halliday Hasan introduced
in their approach to lexical cohesion (1976)  and she provides a comprehensive overview of
these nouns from a micro- and a macro-linguistic perspective. For the empirical analysis  the
author compiled a corpus  which allows statements about a medium- and genre-specific use of
¿general nouns¿. For this purpose  she developed an analytical tool  which takes into account
formal and semantic features. The major outcome of the corpus analysis is that ¿general nouns¿
are much more flexible in form and function than Halliday Hasan assumed and  most importantly 
that they fulfil genre-specific functions some of which have not systematically been associated
with lexical cohesion.

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