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Variation in time and space : observing the world through corpora / edited by Anna Čermáková and Markéta Malá.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Diskursmuster ; Bd. 20.
- Diskursmuster / Discourse Patterns ; 20
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Variation.
- English language.
- Corpora (Linguistics).
- English language--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (VI, 405 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin, Germany ; Boston, Massachusetts : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2021]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- 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 the corpus linguistic methodology. Part I of this volume, Meaning in Time and Space, introduces the two dimensions of variation – time and space – relating them to the negotiation of meaning in discourse and questions of intertextuality. Part II, Variation in Time, approaches the English language from a diachronic point of view; the time periods covered vary considerably, ranging from 16th century up to present-day; so do the genres explored. Part III, Variation in Space, focuses on global varieties of English and includes a contrastive point of view. The range of topics is again broad – from specific lexico-grammatical structures to the variation in academic English, combining the regional and genre dimensions of variation. This is a timely volume that shows the breadth and depth in current corpus-based research of English.
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9783110602401
- 3110602407
- 9783110604719
- 311060471X
- OCLC:
- 1226679283
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