Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction ix
4. Collocations, lexical bundles and SciE-Lex 1
5. SciE-Lex 21
6. Formal and functional variation of lexical bundles in biomedical English 39
7. A corpus-based analysis of the collocational patterning of adjectives with abstract nouns in medical English 55
8. As described below 73
9. Negation in biomedical English 105
10. A cross-disciplinary analysis of personal and impersonal features in English and Spanish scientific writing 121
11. Gender assignment in present-day scientific English 145
12. The metaphorical basis of discourse structure 165
13. Frames, constructions, and metaphors in Spanish FrameNet 185
14. Subject index 211