Variational Text Linguistics : : Revisiting Register in English /

Variational Text Linguistics : : Revisiting Register in English / / 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 new...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VIII, 339 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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