The phrasal verb “come across” means “to meet, find, or discover, esp. by chance.” It is deserving to study the reason why this phrasal verb has come to have this meaning. The present paper aims to clarify the semantic features of “come across” from the viewpoint of cognitive linguistics and shows that deictic features of “here and now” are closely related with the deictic verb“ come.”

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Fairclough states that genres structure texts in specific ways. Using Fairclough’s theory and Fowler’s ideas, I examined the relationship between genre, discourses, and style in a column and an editorial in the Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Japan’s leading economic newspaper. 　The examination found that genre, discourses, and style were of a similar structure in each text but differed in structure when comparing one text with the other. The results support Fairclough’s theory that genres structure texts in specific ways. 　My analysis also found the column and editorial to have opposite characteristics with regard to features mentioned by Fowler, such as use of 1）emotive vocabularies 2）modalities 3）generic statements, and 4）argumentation.

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