Contrastive Register Variation : : A Quantitative Approach to the Comparison of English and German / / Stella Neumann.

The book provides the first comparison of usage preferences across registers in the language pair English-German. Due to the innovative quantitative approach and broad coverage, the volume is an excellent resource for scholars working in contrastive linguistics and translation studies as well as for...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2013]
©2014
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 251
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Physical Description:1 online resource (361 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • List of tables and figures
  • List of abbreviations
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • Part 1: Theoretical foundations
  • Chapter 2. State of the art
  • Chapter 3. On empirical methods in linguistics
  • Chapter 4. Indicators of register classification
  • Part 2: Empirical analysis
  • Chapter 5. Research design
  • Chapter 6. English intralingual register variation
  • Chapter 7. German intralingual register variation
  • Chapter 8. Cross-linguistic register comparison
  • Chapter 9. Variation between originals and translations
  • Chapter 10. Insights on register variation
  • Chapter 11. Conclusions
  • References
  • Appendix
  • Index