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] ©2021 |
Year of Publication: | 2020 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Diskursmuster / Discourse Patterns ,
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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 -- Index |
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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 9783110750720 9783110750706 9783110659061 9783110616859 9783110704716 9783110704518 9783110704761 9783110704563 |
ISSN: | 2701-0260 ; |
DOI: | 10.1515/9783110604719 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | ed. by Anna Čermáková, Markéta Malá. |