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In:Terms in Context
Jennifer Pearson
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics 1] 1998
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Published online: 15 May 1998

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Table of contents

Acknowledgmentsviii

Introduction1

1.Identifying differences between words and terms7

2.Corpora, corpus design and corpus selection41

3.Dictionaries and defining strategies67

4.Analysis of definitions in text89

5.Defining as a perfomative act105

6.Retrieval of terms from the corpora121

7.Retrieval of formal and semi-formal defining expositives135

8.Synonymy, substitution and paraphrasing168

9.Using the term as the node191

10. Summary204

References211

Appendix A223

Appendix B226