Contrastive register variation : a quantitative approach to the comparison of English and German / Stella Neumann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Neumann, Stella, 1968-

Series:

Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 251.

Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs, 1861-4302 ; volume 251

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Register (Linguistics).

Contrastive linguistics.

Language and languages--Variation.

Language and languages.

German language--Grammar, Comparative--English.

German language.

English language--Grammar, Comparative--German.

English language.

Corpora (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (384 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The book provides the first comparison of usage preferences across registers in the language pair English-German. Due to the innovative quantitative approach and broad coverage, the volume is an excellent resource for scholars working in contrastive linguistics and translation studies as well as for corpus linguists.

Contents:

Front matter

Acknowledgements

Contents

List of tables and figures

List of abbreviations

Chapter 1. Introduction

Part 1: Theoretical foundations

Chapter 2. State of the art

Chapter 3. On empirical methods in linguistics

Chapter 4. Indicators of register classification

Part 2: Empirical analysis

Chapter 5. Research design

Chapter 6. English intralingual register variation

Chapter 7. German intralingual register variation

Chapter 8. Cross-linguistic register comparison

Chapter 9. Variation between originals and translations

Chapter 10. Insights on register variation

Chapter 11. Conclusions

References

Appendix

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783110238594

3110238594

OCLC:

870892299