包装名词在语篇中的态度意义研究

Contents
丛书序 i
序 iii
前言 vii
Chapter 1 Introduction 1
1.1 Preliminaries 1
1.2 The Rationale of Attitudinal Studies on Packing Nouns 3
1.3 The Objectives of the Present Study 9
1.4 The Organization of This Study 11
Chapter 2 Packing Nouns Diffused in Studies of Abstract Nouns 14
2.1 Introduction 14
2.2 Traditional-grammatical Studies of Abstract Nouns 15
2.2.1 The Monistic Approach to Abstract Nouns 16
2.2.2 The Dualist Approach to Abstract Nouns 19
2.2.3 The Trichotomist Approach to Abstract Nouns 20
2.3 Philosophical Studies of Abstract Nouns 22
2.3.1 The Controversy of the Existence of Abstract Entities 22
2.3.2 The “Container” Image of Abstract Nouns 24
2.4 Systemic Functional Study of Abstract Nouns 27
2.4.1 Structurally-based Studies of Abstract Nouns 28
2.4.2 Lexically-based Studies of Abstract Nouns 34
2.5 Corpus Linguistic Studies of Abstract Nouns 36
2.5.2 Studies Mentioning the Evaluative Function of Packing Nouns in
Passing 39
2.6 Other Studies 42
2.7 Summary 44
Chapter 3 Packing Nouns and Attitudinal Resources in Discourse
47
3.1 Introduction 47
3.2 Packing Nouns Revisited 47
3.2.1 The Cognitive Characteristics of Packing Nouns 48
3.2.2 The Semantic Characteristics of Packing Nouns 54
3.3 The Lexico-grammatical Patterns of Packing Nouns 62
3.3.1 Semantic Co-referentiality and Cognitive Identity 63
3.3.2 The Lexico-grammatical Patterns of Packing Nouns 67
3.4 The Interpersonal Information of Packing Nouns 72
3.4.1 Packing Nouns and Information Loss in Nominalization 72
3.4.2 The Attitudinal Information of Packing Nouns 75
3.4.3 Attitudinal and Non-attitudinal Packing Nouns 78
3.5 Strategies of Attitude Realization in Discourse 80
3.5.1 Attitude Inscription in Discourse 80
3.5.2 Attitude Invocation in Discourse 82
3.5.3 The Interaction of Inscription and Invocation 83
3.6 Attitudinal Packing Nouns and Attitude Inscription 84
3.7 Non-attitudinal Packing Nouns and Attitude Invocation in
Discourse 87
3.8 Packing Nouns Redefined in the Framework of Attitude
Realization in Discourse 93
3.9 Summary 94
Chapter 4 Research Design 98
4.1 Introduction 98
4.2 Identifying the Optimally Representative Packing Nouns 99
4.2.1 The Corpus， the Concordance Tool and the Queries 99
4.2.2 Data Processing 100
4.2.3 A Survey of the Results of the Corpus Inquiry 105
4.3 Analyzing the Attitud