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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823892003321

Autore

Jucker Andreas H

Titolo

Social stylistics : syntactic variation in British newspapers / / Andreas H. Jucker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, 1992

ISBN

3-11-085115-6

Edizione

[Reprint 2010]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Topics in English linguistics ; ; 6

Classificazione

HF 144

Disciplina

072/.014

Soggetti

British newspapers - Language

Journalism - Great Britain - Language

English language - Great Britain - Style

English language - Great Britain - Syntax

English language - Variation - Great Britain

English language - Social aspects - Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-291) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Variability in sociolinguistics and stylistics -- 3. Socio-economic differentiation of the British dailies -- 4. Structure of noun phrases -- 5. Noun phrases as style markers -- 6. Distribution and complexity -- 7. Premodifications -- 8. Postmodifications -- 9. Noun phrase name appositions -- 10. Conclusion -- Notes -- Appendix I Coding scheme -- Appendix II Corpus -- Appendix III Tables -- References -- Index -- Backmatter

Sommario/riassunto

Social Stylistics : Syntactic Variation in British Newspapers