A Study on the Function of Articles for the Names of Diseases and Symptoms
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- Yukihisa OYAMADA
- Tokyo Metropolitan University
Bibliographic Information
- Other Title
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- 病名や症状名と冠詞に関する一考察
Description
<p>English language learners often have difficulty in using articles with countable or uncountable nouns appropriately. For example, we can say both ‘catch a cold’ and ‘catch cold’, or we can also say both ‘influenza’ and ‘the flu’, while we cannot say ‘*appendicitises’. This paper examines how indefinite articles, definite articles or zero articles function in the names of diseases and symptoms. We will employ the theory of cognitive grammar suggested by Langacker, especially the concepts of countable nouns and mass nouns, to explore the relationships between articles and medical terms.<br> </p>
Journal
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- Cultures and Communication
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Cultures and Communication 44 (1), 67-81, 2024-03-12
The Japanese Association for English Studies
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Details 詳細情報について
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- CRID
- 1390862478333151744
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- ISSN
- 21856915
- 24369993
- 13460439
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- Text Lang
- ja
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- Data Source
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- JaLC
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- Abstract License Flag
- Allowed