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...
Saved in:
Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2016 Part 1 |
---|---|
MitwirkendeR: | |
HerausgeberIn: | |
Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2016] ©2016 |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] ,
90 |
Online Access: | |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (VIII, 339 p.) |
Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
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