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shell nouns (Hunston& Francis, 1999; Schmid, 2000) and signaling nouns (Flowerdew, 2003). No matterwhat they are labeled as, the concept which lies behind these nouns is the same, asnoted by Ivanic (1991), who claimed that these nouns possess “both a constant and avariable meaning, and the variable meaning is dependent on the context in which it is[they are] used” (Ivanic, 1991: 109).
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Chapter Three Research Design .... 21
3.1 Instruments......... 21
3.2 Research procedures ............ 21
Chapter Four Results and Discussion .... 27
4.1 Distribution and Discussion of Human Animate Nouns............ 28
4.2 Distribution and Discussion of Non-human Animate Nouns .... 33
4.3 Distribution and Discussion of Inanimate Concrete Nouns....... 37
4.4 Distribution and Discussion of Inanimate Abstract Noun ......... 40
4.5 Distribution and Discussion of Action Nouns ......... 42
4.6 Distribution and Discussion of Fact Nouns .... 43
4.7 Distribution and Discussion of Place Nouns ........... 44
4.8 The Discussion of General Nouns as Discourse Organizers...... 47
4.9 Characteristics of General nouns in Grimm’s Fairy Tales ......... 49
Chapter Five Conclusion....... 53
5.1 Major Findings of the Study ......... 53
5.2 Implications of the Study ..... 57
5.3 Limitations of the Thesis and Suggestions for the Future Study ........ 57

Chapter Four Results and Discussion

In this chapter the general features of the use of the seven types of general nounswill be presented according to Halliday and Hasan(1976) in Grimm’s Fairy Tales.Moreover, the frequencies of every specific general noun will be illustrated in eachclassification. And also the usage of these general nouns used as discourse organizersis analyzed in Grimm’s Fairy Tales. And then, a further discussion of thecharacteristics of different general nouns including distribution of human noun,non-human animate noun, inanimate concrete noun, inanimate abstract noun, actionnoun, fact noun and place noun will be conducted.In order to accomplish this study, one corpus was constructed and researched. Inthis corpus, there are 21011 words in total and the number of the general nouns is2451. Based on calculation, the percentage of the general nouns in total nouns is11.66%, which shows the significance of general nouns. However, every kind ofgeneral noun has distinguished distribution in this corpus. The following table willshow a clear presentation of the distribution.

4.1 Distribution and Discussion of Human Animate Nouns

According to Halliday and Hasan, the animate nouns in Grimm’s Fairy Tales canbe divided into human animate noun and non-human animate noun. The use of humananimate noun in Grimm’s Fairy Tales is much more than the adoption of non-humananimate noun.Human animate noun acts the most critical role in discourse coherence andmakes a lot of contributions to the cohesion of whole text, so the analysis of thecharacteristics of the human nouns is an indispensable aspect in the study.In table 4-2, the frequencies and percentages of human animate nouns arepresented. There are 34 kinds of human animate nouns which act as general nouns inthe corpus: Grimm’s Fairy Tales. And the distribution of all the 34 kinds of humananimate nouns can be easily concluded in the corpus. Among them, the most widelyused human本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。