Linguistic Variation in Research Articles

Name: Linguistic Variation in Research Articles | When discipline tells only part of the story
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When discipline tells only part of the story

Bethany Gray(Autor*in)

John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Erschienen am 17. Dezember 2015

XIV, 222 Seiten

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Intro
Linguistic Variation in Research Articles
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
List of tables
List of figures
Introduction
1.1 Academic research writing: One register or many?
1.1.1 A note on 'register'
1.1.2 Goal of the present book
1.2 The linguistic characteristics of academic writing
1.3 Linguistic variation and disciplinary writing
1.4 Trends and gaps in the study of disciplinary writing
1.5 Overview of the book: Applying corpus analytical approaches to disciplinary register variation
Describing the domain of academic journal writing
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Surveying the Domain of Disciplinary Journal Writing
2.2.1 Procedures
2.2.2 A taxonomy of academic journal registers
2.2.3 Some issues in applying a taxonomy of research articles
2.3 Journal Registers in the Disciplines
2.4 Implications for Corpus Design
Building and analyzing the academic journal register corpus
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Corpus Collection Procedures
3.2.1 Formation of operational definitions for journal registers in specific disciplines
3.2.2 Journal and article selection
3.2.3 File conversion and clean-up
3.3 Corpus Description: The Academic Journal Register Corpus
3.4 Corpus Annotation
3.4.1 'Tagging': Part of speech annotation
3.4.2 Accuracy of automatic tagging
3.5 Overview: Procedures for Quantitative Corpus Analysis
The situational characteristics of the Academic Journal Register Corpus
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Motivating a new situational framework for journal registers
4.3 A framework for the situational characteristics of journal registers
4.3.1 Participants
4.3.2 Textual layout and organization
4.3.3 Setting
4.3.4 Subject/topic
4.3.5 Purpose
4.3.6 Nature of data or evidence
4.3.7 Methodology
4.3.8 Explicitness of research design
4.4 The situational characteristics of the Academic Journal Register Corpus
4.4.1 Common characteristics across journal registers
4.4.2 Theoretical articles in philosophy
4.4.3 Qualitative articles in history
4.4.4 Qualitative and quantitative articles in political science
4.4.5 Qualitative and quantitative articles in applied linguistics
4.4.6 Quantitative articles in biology
4.4.7 Quantitative and theoretical articles in physics
4.5 Trends in the situational characteristics of the Academic Journal Register Corpus
A lexical and grammatical survey
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Grammatical Variation in Academic Prose
5.3 Carrying Out a Lexical and Grammatical Survey
5.4 Distribution of Core Grammatical Features
5.4.1 Nouns
5.4.2 Verbs
5.4.3 The verb phrase: Passive voice
5.4.4 The verb phrase: Tense and aspect
5.4.5 Personal pronouns
5.5 Summing Up: Lexical and Grammatical Variation
Structural complexity in journal registers
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Features of elaboration and compression in academic prose
6.3 Carrying out a study of structural complexity
6.4 The use of features of structural elaboration and compression
6.4.1 Clausal elaboration
6.4.2 Phrasal compression
6.4.3 Intermediate features: Clausal modifiers in the noun phrase
6.5 Summing up: Clausal Elaboration and phrasal compression
6.6 Conclusions
A multi-dimensional analysis of journal registers
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Background: Multi-dimensional analyses of academic language
7.3 Carrying out a new multi-dimensional analysis
7.3.1 Initial factor analyses to determine linguistic variables
7.3.2 Final factor analysis
7.3.3 Calculating and comparing factor scores across disciplines and registers
7.4 Dimensions of variation in academic journal registers in 6 disciplines
7.4.1 Dimension 1: Academic involvement and elaboration vs. informational density
7.4.2 Dimension 2: Contextualized narration vs. procedural discourse
7.4.3 Dimension 3: Human vs. non-human focus
7.4.4 Dimension 4: 'Academese'
7.5 Conclusions
A Synthesis
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Summing up: Linguistic variation in the Academic Journal Register Corpus
8.2.1 How does language use vary across discipline?
8.2.2 How does language use vary across academic journal registers?
8.3 Three grammatical analyses and future directions
8.3.1 What have we learned from three complementary approaches?
8.3.2 Future research using corpus analytical techniques to investigate variation in academic journal registers
8.3.3 Implications: Future linguistic features of interest
8.3.4 Implications: Corpus design for studies of disciplinary writing
References
Appendix A. Journals examined during taxonomy development
Appendix B. Reliability of automatic tags
Appendix C. Semantic classes of nouns, verbs, and adjectives
Appendix D. Full factorial structure matrix for the four-factor solution
Appendix E. Scree plot of the four-factor solution
Appendix F. Significance testing for four-factor solution
Index

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