Variation in Time and Space : : Observing the World through Corpora /

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
MitwirkendeR:
Bevitori, Cinzia,
Busse, Beatrix,
Chen, Yu-Hua,
Gather, Kirsten,
Gilquin, Gaëtanelle,
Harrison, Simon,
Kirk, John,
Kleiber, Ingo,
Kolbe-Hanna, Daniela,
Malá, Markéta,
Ngampradit, Krittaya,
Ratia, Maura,
Ruokkeinen, Sirkku,
Schweinberger, Martin,
Stevens, Michael P.,
Stubbs, Michael,
Suhr, Carla,
Teubert, Wolfgang,
Viana, Vander,
Wei, Naixing,
Wilson, Guyanne,
Yang, Yuesen,
Čermáková, Anna Č,
HerausgeberIn:
Malá, Markéta,
Čermáková, Anna,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2020]
©2021
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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Table of Contents:
  • 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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