Corpus-based approaches to register variation / edited by Elena Seoane, Douglas Biber.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Biber, Douglas, editor.

Seoane, Elena, editor.

Series:

Studies in Corpus Linguistics

Studies in Corpus Linguistics ; v.103

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Variation--Congresses.

English language.

Register (Linguistics)--Congresses.

Register (Linguistics).

Corpora (Linguistics)--Congresses.

Corpora (Linguistics).

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (355 pages)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2021]

Summary:

"As the first collective volume to focus exclusively on corpus-based approaches to register variation, this book provides an exhaustive account of the range and depth of possibilities that the domain of register variation in English has to offer. It illustrates register variation analysis in different theoretical frameworks, such as Probabilistic Grammar, Systemic Functional Linguistics, and Information Theory, and proposes a new framework within the Text Linguistic Approach: the continuous-situational analytical framework. Several of the contributions apply Multi-Dimensional Analysis to corpus data in order to unveil register (dis)similarities, while others rely on logistic regression models and periodization techniques based on Kullback-Leibler divergence. The volume includes both inter-register and intra-register variation analysis of a wide spectrum of varieties, speakers and periods: British and American English, learner varieties, L2 varieties, and EFL, and also contains diachronic studies covering early and late Modern English. This broad scope should be a source of inspiration for anyone interested in historical and ongoing register variation in a vast range of varieties of English worldwide"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

A corpus-based approach to register variation / Elena Seoane and Douglas Biber

Extending text-linguistic studies of register variation to a continuous situational space : case studies from the web and natural conversation / Douglas Biber, Jesse Egbert, Daniel Keller and Stacey Wizner

How register-specific is probabilistic grammatical knowledge? A programmatic sketch and a case study on the dative alternation with give / Alexandra Engel, Jason Grafmiller, Laura Rosseel, Benedikt Szmrecsanyi and Freek Van de Velde

Theme as a proxy for register categorization / Javier Pérez-Guerra

Between context and community : regional variation in register effects in the English dative alternation / Melanie Röthlisberger

A register variation perspective on varieties of English / Stella Neumann and Stefan Evert

Register and modification in the noun phrase / Yolande Botha and Maryka van Zyl

A register approach toward pop lyrics in EFL education / Valentin Werner

On the importance of register in learner writing : a multi-dimensional approach / Tove Larsson, Magali Paquot and Douglas Biber

Nominalizations in Early Modern English : a cross-register perspective / Paula Rodríguez-Puente

Measuring informativity : the rise of compounds as informationally dense structures in 20th-century Scientific English / Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb

Exploring sub-register variation in Victorian newspapers : evidence from the British Library Newspapers database / Turo Hiltunen.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Based on papers presented at the pre-conference workshop Register Approaches to Language Variation and Change in English(es), held at the ICAME 40 conference (University of Neuchâtel, 1-5 June 2019).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Seoane, Elena Corpus-Based Approaches to Register Variation

ISBN:

9789027258458

9027258457

OCLC:

1273425686