Cross-Linguistic Register Variation.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rørvik, Sylvi.

Series:

Studies in Corpus Linguistics Series

Studies in Corpus Linguistics Series ; v.125

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Register (Linguistics).

Language and languages--Variation.

Language and languages.

Genre:

Essays

Physical Description:

1 online resource (275 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2026.

Summary:

A current trend in contrastive corpus linguistics is to take register variation as a point of departure for identifying similarities and differences across languages. This volume looks back at central previous contributions in this area.

Contents:

Prelim pages

Table of contents

English in cross-register and cross-linguistic research / Marlen Izquierdo, Sylvi Rrvik

A cross-linguistic cross-register study of the in English and Norwegian and / Signe Oksefjell Ebeling

Exploring verbal register markers in English and Spanish promotional texts and essays / Noelia Ramon, Rosa Rabadan

in three English and Norwegian registers (, non-fiction, and) / Hilde Hasselgard

Verb omission in translations as evidence of in progress / Thomas Egan

in English and German and non-fiction / Jenny Strom Herold, Magnus Levin

across languages and academic registers / Sylvi Rrvik

Hemming and hawing their way through / Belen Labrador

in constructions / Faye Troughton

English absolutely, French absolument, and Dutch absoluut in contrast and in translation / Lobke Ghesquiere, Gudrun Vanderbauwhede, Simon Copet

Index

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ISBN:

90-272-4394-8

9789027243942

OCLC:

1574809124