| Autore |
Biber Douglas
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| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa |
Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, 2006
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| Descrizione fisica |
1 online resource (270 p.)
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| Disciplina |
401/.41
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| Collana |
Studies in corpus linguistics
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| Soggetto topico |
Academic language - Data processing
Register (Linguistics) - Data processing
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| ISBN |
1-282-15592-X
9786612155925
90-272-9362-7
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| Classificazione |
17.46
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| Formato |
Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione |
eng
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| Nota di contenuto |
University Language -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1.1. The student perspective: Language in the university -- 1.2. A short case study: Textbooks versus classroom teaching -- 1.3. Previous research on academic language -- 1.3.1. "Register'' and "genre'' perspectives on academic language -- 1.3.2. Previous Multi-Dimensional studies of academic registers -- 1.3.3. The grammatical description of written academic prose in The Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English -- 1.4. Strengths and weaknesses of previous research -- 1.5. Background of the present book: Introduction to the T2K-SWAL Project -- 1.6. Overview of the present book -- Note -- The Spoken and Written Academic Language (T2K-SWAL) Corpus -- 2.1. Design and construction of the T2K-SWAL Corpus -- 2.2. Transcription, scanning, and editing of texts in the T2K-SWAL Corpus -- 2.3. Grammatical tagging and tag-editing -- 2.4. Overview of linguistic analyses -- Notes -- Vocabulary use in classroom teaching and textbooks -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. A note on methodology -- 3.3. Vocabulary use in university registers -- 3.3.1. Vocabulary in classroom teaching and textbooks -- 3.3.2. Vocabulary across academic disciplines -- 3.4. Conclusion -- Notes -- Grammatical variation among university registers -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Content word classes -- 4.3. Nouns and pronouns -- 4.4. Semantic classes for nouns -- 4.4.1. The noun thing in spoken university registers -- 4.5. Semantic classes of verbs -- 4.6. Variation in the verb phrase -- 4.7. Discourse connectors -- 4.7.1. Discourse markers in spoken university registers -- 4.7.2. Linking adverbials in written university registers -- 4.8. Dependent clauses -- 4.8.1. Relative clauses -- 4.8.2. Adverbial clauses -- 4.8.3. Complement clauses -- 4.9. Chapter summary.
The expression of stance in university registers -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. A framework for the study of stance -- 5.2.1. Grammatical, lexical, and paralinguistic marking of stance -- 5.2.2. Attribution of stance -- 5.2.3. Stance features included in the present study -- 5.3. Distribution and functions of stance features -- 5.3.1. Modal verbs as stance markers -- 5.3.2. Stance adverbs across registers -- 5.3.3. Stance complement clauses across registers -- 5.4. Comparing the stance of university registers -- 5.4.1. Academic registers -- 5.4.2. Management/advising registers -- 5.5. Chapter summary -- Note -- Lexical bundles in university teaching and textbooks -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. General characteristics of lexical bundles -- 6.3. Lexical bundles in university classroom teaching and textbooks Section coauthors: Susan Conrad and Viviana Cortes [based on a revised version of Biber, Conrad, & -- Cortes 2004] -- 6.3.1. Overall distribution of bundles in classroom teaching and textbooks -- 6.3.2. Discourse functions of lexical bundles in university classroom teaching and textbooks -- 6.3.3. Stance bundles -- 6.3.4. Discourse organizing bundles -- 6.3.5. Referential bundles -- 6.3.6. Register variation in the functional exploitation of lexical bundles -- 6.4. Lexical bundles across the full range of university registers -- 6.4.1. Lexical bundles in spoken university registers -- 6.4.2. Lexical bundles in non-academic written registers -- 6.5. Lexical bundles across academic disciplines -- 6.6. Postscript: The theoretical status of lexical bundles in university registers -- Notes -- Multi-dimensional patterns of variation among university registers -- 7.1. Introduction -- 7.2. Application of the 1988 MD analysis to university registers -- 7.2.1. Overview of the 1988 MD analysis.
7.2.2. Relations among university registers with respect to the 1988 dimensions -- 7.3. Motivating a 'new' MD analysis of university registers -- 7.4. Factor analysis of linguistic features in the T2K-SWAL corpus -- 7.5. Interpretation of the university (T2K-SWAL) dimensions of variation -- 7.5.1. Dimension 1: Oral vs. literate discourse -- 7.5.2. Dimension 2: Procedural vs. content-focused discourse -- 7.5.3. Dimension 3: Reconstructed account of events -- 7.5.4. Dimension 4: Teacher-centered stance -- 7.5.5. The distribution of stance features across the university dimensions -- 7.5.6. Differences among academic disciplines -- 7.6. Comparison of the general spoken/written dimensions (1988) and the T2K-SWAL dimensions of variation -- Notes -- Synthesis and future directions -- 8.1. Speech versus writing in the university -- 8.2. Linguistic correlates of advising/management -- 8.3. The relative unimportance of academic instruction as a communicative purpose that cuts across speech and writing -- 8.4. The relative unimportance of differences in audience and interactivity as parameters that distinguish among the spoken registers -- 8.5. The central importance of stance -- 8.6. The complex patterns of use across academic disciplines -- 8.7. Future directions -- References -- Appendix A: Analytical procedures for the linguistic analyses -- 1. Overview of linguistic analyses -- 2. Vocabulary distributions -- 3. Semantic categories of the major word classes -- 3.1. Semantic categories for verbs -- 3.2. Semantic categories for nouns -- Notes -- Appendix B: Methodological issues in quantitative vocabulary analyses -- 1. Representativeness of the corpus -- 2. Comparisons across corpora -- 2.1. Experiments on the influence of corpus design on vocabulary distributions -- Note -- Index -- The series Studies in Corpus Linguistics.
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University language [[electronic resource] ] : a corpus-based study of spoken and written registers / / Douglas Biber
