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ERIC Number: EJ579799
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1999
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ISSN: ISSN-0142-6001
Procedural Vocabulary: Lexical Signalling of Conceptual Relations in Discourse.
Marco, Maria Jose Luzon
Applied Linguistics, v20 n1 p1-21 Mar 1999
Explores the function of items of procedural vocabulary as signals of conceptual relations in scientific discourse. Procedural vocabulary consists of lexical items that do not belong to any particular schema. Develops a taxonomy of procedural items in terms of the contextual relations they create between content-bearing words, classifying the relations signalled by procedural vocabulary into nine groups. (SM)
Descriptors: Classification, Discourse Analysis, Lexicology, Sciences, Scientific Research, Semantics, Vocabulary Development, Vocabulary Skills, Written Language
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - General
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Language: English
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