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Vernacular Explanations of Causation in Lay Health Discourse
(2013-06-07)
Few linguistic works exam vernacular terms for health concepts rather than technical medical terms (cf. Rueda-Baclig & Florencio 2003). The prevalence of conversations on food, sleep, exercise, and illness – and the ...
Truth Is, Sentence-Initial Shell Nouns Are Showing Up Bare
(Palacký University, 2014)
**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: In one subtype of English shell noun construction, the noun serves as the subject in a pre-clausal unit, e.g., “The thing is.” Shell noun NPs have mainly been ...
Stress management: Corpus-based insights into vernacular interpretations of "stress"
(Equinox, 2013)
**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: Examination of the term stress in naturally occurring vernacular prose provides evidence of three separate senses being conflated. A corpus analysis of 818 instances ...