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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808712103321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

©2021

ISBN

90-272-5845-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (355 pages)

Collana

Studies in Corpus Linguistics ; ; v.103

Disciplina

427.00188

Soggetti

English language - Variation

Register (Linguistics)

Corpora (Linguistics)

Conference papers and proceedings.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

"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"--