Abstract

Encapsulation by means of abstract unspecific nouns (such as conclusion, topic, reality or problem) reifies predicative discourse chunks and conceptualise them. This ability is inherent to encapsulators or shell nouns (Schmid 2000), a functional class privileged to signposting the [...]

Abstract

Abstract: Parliamentary debate is essentially an argumentative genre because members of parliament defend a stance regarding a topic of discussion. This position is embodied in argumentative structures, parts of which are often defined by binary connectives (mostly causal and consequence, [...]