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

Format:

Book

Series:

Language and computers ; no. 46.

Language and computers : studies in practical linguistics ; no. 46

Language:

English

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

v, 288 pages : fig., tables ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2003.

Contents:

"It's really fascinating work": Differences in Evaluative Adjectives across Academic Registers / John M. Swales, Amy Burke 1

"But here's a flawed argument": Socialisation into and through Metadiscourse / Anna Mauranen 19

Register-specificity of Signalling Nouns in Discourse / John Flowerdew 35

Variation among University Spoken and Written Registers: A New Multi-dimensional Analysis / Douglas Biber 47

Linguistic Dimensions of Direct Mail Letters / Ulla Connor, Thomas Upton 71

Gender-Based Variation in Nineteenth-Century English Letter-Writing / Christer Geisler 87

The Grammar of Stance in Early Eighteenth-Century English Epistolary Language / Susan Fitzmaurice 107

Great vs. Lovely: Stance Differences in American and British English / Kristen Precht 133

"What's in a Name?": Vocatives in Casual Conversations and Radio Phone-in Calls / Michael J. McCarthy, Anne O'Keeffe 153

Turn Initiators in Spoken English: A Corpus-Based Approach to Interaction and Grammar / Hongyin Tao 187

Situational Variation in Intonational Strategies / Malcah Yaeger-Dror, Lauren Hall-Lew, Sharon Deckert 209

On the Radical Difference between the Subject Personal Pronouns in Written and Spoken European French / Bonnie Fonseca-Greber, Linda R. Waugh 225

The World Wide Web as Linguistic Corpus / Charles Meyer, Roger Grabowski, Hung-Yul Han, Konstantin Mantzouranis, Stephanie Moses 241

Corpus Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition: Rules and Frequency in the Acquisition of English Multiple wh-Questions / Robert Bley-Vroman 255

Comparing Alternate Complements of Object Control Verbs: Evidence from the Bank of English Corpus / Juhani Rudanko 273.

Notes:

Internat. conference proceedings.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9042010363

OCLC:

52869571