Corpus analysis : : language structure and language use / / edited by Pepi Leistyna, Charles F. Meyer.

• Superior document: Language and computers ; no. 46
• Author: North American Symposium on Corpus Linguistics and Language Teaching Boston, Mass.)
• TeilnehmendeR: Leistyna, Pepi,; Meyer, Charles F.,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam, The Netherlands : : Brill Rodopi,, [2003]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Language: English
• Series: Language and Computers 46.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (v, 288 pages) :; illustrations.
• Notes: Papers presented at a conference held Mar. 23-25, 2001, in Boston, Mass.

The papers published in this volume were originally presented at the Third North American Symposium on Corpus Linguistics and Language Teaching held on 23-25 March 2001 at the Park Plaza Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts. Each paper analyses some aspect of language use or structure in one or more of th...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material / Pepi Leistyna and Charles F. Meyer
• “It’s really fascinating work”: Differences in Evaluative Adjectives across Academic Registers / John M. Swales and Amy Burke
• \'But here's a flawed argument\': Socialisation into and through Metadiscourse / Anna Mauranen
• Register-Specificity of Signalling Nouns in Discourse / John Flowerdew
• Variation among University Spoken and Written Registers: A New Multi-Dimensional Analysis / Douglas Biber
• Linguistic Dimensions of Direct Mail Letters / Ulla Connor and Thomas Upton
• Gender-Based Variation in Nineteenth-Century English Letter Writing / Christer Geisler
• The Grammar of Stance in Early Eighteenth-Century English Epistolary Language / Susan Fitzmaurice
• Great Versus Lovely: Stance Differences in American and British English / Kristen Precht
• “What's in a Name?”: Vocatives in Casual Conversations and Radio Phone-in Calls / Michael J. McCarthy and Anne O’Keeffe
• Turn Initiators in Spoken English: A Corpus-Based Approach to Interaction and Grammar / Hongyin Tao
• Situational Variation in Intonational Strategies / Malcah Yaeger-Dror , Lauren Hall-Lew and Sharon Deckert
• On the Radical Difference between the Subject Personal Pronouns in Written and Spoken European French / Bonnie Fonseca-Greber and Linda R. Waugh
• The World Wide Web as Linguistic Corpus / Charles F. Meyer , Roger Grabowski , Hung-Yul Han , Konstantin Mantzouranis and Stephanie Moses
• Corpus Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition: Rules and Frequency in the Acquisition of English Multiple wh-Questions / Robert Bley-Vroman
• Comparing Alternate Complements of Object Control Verbs: Evidence from the Bank of English Corpus / Juhani Rudanko
• About the Contributors / Pepi Leistyna and Charles F. Meyer.