Variational Text Linguistics : : Revisiting Register in English / / ed. by Christina Sanchez-Stockhammer, Christoph Schubert.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2016 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Biber, Douglas,; Bieswanger, Markus,; Dorgeloh, Heidrun,; Egbert, Jesse,; Fest, Jennifer,; Güldenring, Barbara,; Kreyer, Rolf,; Lampert, Martina,; Neumann, Stella,; Pham, Teresa,; Pérez-Guerra, Javier,; Sanchez-Stockhammer, Christina,; Schaub, Steffen,; Schubert, Christoph,; Werner, Valentin,
• HerausgeberIn: Sanchez-Stockhammer, Christina,; Schubert, Christoph,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] , 90
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VIII, 339 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Acknowledgements --; Table of contents --; Introduction: Current trends in register research --; Section I: Specialised registers --; Towards a user-based taxonomy of web registers --; The interrelationship of register and genre in medical discourse --; Aviation English: Two distinct specialised registers? --; ‘Now niggas talk a lotta Bad Boy shit’: The register hip-hop from a corpus-linguistic perspective --; The register of English crossword puzzles: Studies in intertextuality --; Section II: Cross-register comparison --; Punctuation as an indication of register: Comics and academic texts --; Linking up register and cognitive perspectives: Parenthetical constructions in academic prose and experimentalist poetry --; Cohesive devices across registers and varieties: The role of medium in English --; Section III: Regional, contrastive and diachronic register variation --; Metaphors in New English academic writing --; The influence of register on noun phrase complexity in varieties of English --; Real-time online text commentaries: A cross-cultural perspective --; Word order is in order here: A diachronic register analysis of syntactic markedness in English --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110443554; 9783110762501; 9783110701005; 9783110742978; 9783110485103; 9783110485257
• ISSN: 1434-3452
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110443554
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Christina Sanchez-Stockhammer, Christoph Schubert.

Owing to the ever-increasing possibilities of communication, especially with the advent of modern communication technologies, register analysis offers a constantly widening range of research opportunities. Still, research has mainly concentrated on well-established and frequent registers such as newspaper articles, while many descriptive and theoretical issues have not yet been sufficiently investigated.This volume gives a state-of-the-art insight into register studies and points out emerging trends as well as new directions for future research. Furthermore, it provides a forum for the description and discussion of registers which have not received an appropriate amount of attention so far. In particular, it deals with specialized offline and online registers, cross-register comparison as well as regional, contrastive, and diachronic register variation.In parallel to the new discipline of variational pragmatics, this volume aims to foster the discipline of ‘variational text linguistics’ and to initiate fundamental investigations in this area. This field of research provides new insights into the concept of register, since it covers both functional and regional types of textual variation.