Variation in Time and Space : : Observing the World through Corpora / / ed. by Anna Čermáková, Markéta Malá.

Variation in Time and Space: Observing the World through Corpora is a collection of articles that address the theme of linguistic variation in English in its broadest sense. Current research in English language presented in the book explores a fascinating number of topics, whose unifying element is...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Diskursmuster / Discourse Patterns , 20
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VI, 405 p.)
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Contents --
Introduction --
I Meaning in time and space --
Digital discourse and its discontents --
Text, intertext and meaning --
Hic sunt dracones --
II Variation in time --
Presenting knowledge of the world --
Interpreting the world of late modern English medical writing --
A corpus-based analysis of grammarians’ references in 19th-century British grammars --
Construing justice --
III Variation in space --
Variation in the complementiser choice between if and whether --
Using intensifier-adjective collocations to investigate mechanisms of change --
There’s different types --
Academic prose across countries --
A corpus-based study of metadiscoursal boosters in applied linguistics dissertations written in Thailand and in the United States --
Patterns and meanings of hedging verbs in English-medium research articles by Chinese and Western scholars --
The EMI campus as site and source for a multimodal corpus --
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Summary:Variation in Time and Space: Observing the World through Corpora is a collection of articles that address the theme of linguistic variation in English in its broadest sense. Current research in English language presented in the book explores a fascinating number of topics, whose unifying element is the corpus linguistic methodology. Part I of this volume, Meaning in Time and Space, introduces the two dimensions of variation – time and space – relating them to the negotiation of meaning in discourse and questions of intertextuality. Part II, Variation in Time, approaches the English language from a diachronic point of view; the time periods covered vary considerably, ranging from 16th century up to present-day; so do the genres explored. Part III, Variation in Space, focuses on global varieties of English and includes a contrastive point of view. The range of topics is again broad – from specific lexico-grammatical structures to the variation in academic English, combining the regional and genre dimensions of variation. This is a timely volume that shows the breadth and depth in current corpus-based research of English.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9783110604719
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ISSN:2701-0260 ;
DOI:10.1515/9783110604719
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
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