The Functions of <General Nouns>
Benninghoven, Vera
The author critically discusses the concept of , 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 . For this purpose, she developed an analytical tool, which takes into account formal and...