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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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