conceptual metaphor n
see metaphor
concessive clausen
a dependent clause giving information which contrasts with information
contained in an independent clause, and which is usually introduced by
although or while. For example,
Although she is only 1 3 , Tina is an excellent pianist.
conclusionn
see essay
concordn
also agreement
a type of grammatical relationship between two or more elements in a
sentence, in which both or all elements show a particular feature. For
example, in English a third person singular subject occurs with a singular
verb, and a plural subject occurs with a plural verb (number concord):
He walks They walk
Concord may affect case, gender, number, and person.
see also government
concordancenconcordancingv
a list of all the words which are used in a particular text or in the works
of a particular author, together with a list of the contexts in which each
word occurs (usually not including highly frequent grammatical words
such as articles and prepositions). Concordances have been used in the
study of word frequencies, grammar, discourse and stylistics. In recent
years the preparation of concordances by computers has been used to
analyze individual texts, large samples of writing by a particular author,
or different genres and registers. A collection of texts for such purposes
is called a corpus. Computer concordances are now often used in the
preparation of dictionaries, since they enable lexicographers to study how
words are used in a wide range of contexts.
concordancern
software that searches for words of phrases in a corpus and displays the
selected item or items in a list together with their surrounding context.
Concordancers enable the uses of words to be displayed together with
contexts of use (see below) and are used in discourse analysis and other
forms of language analysis. They are also sometimes used by teachers to
provide students with examples of authentic language use. The following
are examples of some contexts for the word forecastin a written corpus:
concordancer