Contrastive register variation : a quantitative approach to the comparison of English and German / / Stella Neumann

• Autore: Neumann Stella <1968->
• Pubblicazione: Berlin : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2014]; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (384 p.)
• Disciplina: 425
• Soggetto topico: Register (Linguistics); Contrastive linguistics; Language and languages - Variation; German language - Grammar, Comparative - English; English language - Grammar, Comparative - German; Corpora (Linguistics)
• Classificazione: ES 460
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of tables and figures -- List of abbreviations -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part 1: Theoretical foundations -- Chapter 2. State of the art -- Chapter 3. On empirical methods in linguistics -- Chapter 4. Indicators of register classification -- Part 2: Empirical analysis -- Chapter 5. Research design -- Chapter 6. English intralingual register variation -- Chapter 7. German intralingual register variation -- Chapter 8. Cross-linguistic register comparison -- Chapter 9. Variation between originals and translations -- Chapter 10. Insights on register variation -- Chapter 11. Conclusions -- References -- Appendix -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The book provides the first comparison of usage preferences across registers in the language pair English-German. Due to the innovative quantitative approach and broad coverage, the volume is an excellent resource for scholars working in contrastive linguistics and translation studies as well as for corpus linguists.
• Titolo autorizzato: Contrastive register variation
• ISBN: 3-11-023859-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910815868403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Trends in linguistics. . -Studies and monographs ; ; 251.