Contrastive Register Variation

Name: Contrastive Register Variation | A Quantitative Approach to the Comparison of English and German
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A Quantitative Approach to the Comparison of English and German

Stella Neumann(Autor*in)

De Gruyter Mouton (Verlag)

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Erschienen am 12. Dezember 2013

XX, 361 Seiten

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Intro
Acknowledgements
List of tables and figures
List of abbreviations
Chapter 1. Introduction
1 The concept of variation in linguistics
2 Goal of the study
3 Methodology for the investigation of variation
4 Organisation of the study
Part 1: Theoretical foundations
Chapter 2. State of the art
1 Texts: a view on text linguistics
2 Register: situating texts in the language system
3 Variation: comparing linguistic systems
3.1 Contrastive linguistics -
3.2 Lexico-grammatical variation across languages -
3.3 Register variation across languages -
4 Translation: influences from language mediation
4.1 Register analysis in translation studies -
4.2 Translation properties -
5 Envoi
Chapter 3. On empirical methods in linguistics
1 Conceptual and methodological links between linguistics and social sciences
2 Empirical methods
2.1 Qualitative and quantitative approaches
2.2 From abstract concepts to observable features
3 Quality criteria for empirical research
4 Limits of cross-linguistic empirical research
5 Summary
Chapter 4. Indicators of register classification
1 Field of discourse
1.1 Experiential domain
1.2 Goal orientation
2 Tenor of discourse
2.1 Agentive roles
2.2 Social role relationship
2.3 Social distance
2.4 Appraisal
3 Mode of discourse
3.1 Language role
3.2 Channel
3.3 Medium
4 Summary
Part 2: Empirical analysis
Chapter 5. Research design
1 The corpus
1.1 Design
1.2 Enrichment
2 Exploiting the corpus
2.1 Query tools
2.2 Statistics
3 Corpus contrasts
3.1 Overview of the contrasts
3.2 Relative register values
4 Hypotheses
4.1 Language-internal variation in originals
4.2 Cross-linguistic variation in originals
4.3 Variation between originals and translations
5 Summary
Chapter 6. English intralingual register variation
1 Field of discourse
1.1 Experiential domain
1.2 Goal orientation
2 Tenor of discourse
2.1 Social role relationship
2.2 Social distance
3 Mode of discourse
3.1 Language role
3.2 Medium
4 Summary
Chapter 7. German intralingual register variation
1 Field of discourse
1.1 Experiential domain
1.2 Goal orientation
2 Tenor of discourse
2.1 Social role relationship
2.2 Social distance
3 Mode of discourse
3.1 Language role
3.2 Medium
4 Summary
Chapter 8. Cross-linguistic register comparison
1 Field of discourse
1.1 Experiential domain
1.2 Goal orientation
2 Tenor of discourse
2.1 Social role relationship
2.2 Social distance
3 Mode of discourse
3.1 Language role
3.2 Medium
4 Summary
Chapter 9. Variation between originals and translations
1 Field of discourse
1.1 Experiential domain
1.2 Goal orientation
2 Tenor of discourse
2.1 Social role relationship
2.2 Social distance
3 Mode of discourse
3.1 Language role
3.2 Medium
4 Summary
Chapter 10. Insights on register variation
1 Variation in the CroCo registers
1.1 Variation in the English registers
1.2 Variation in the German registers
1.3 Cross-linguistic variation
1.4 Variation between the originals and translations
2 The hypotheses revisited
3 Towards a model of register variation
Chapter 11. Conclusions
1 Summary of the results
2 Evaluation of the methodology
3 Outlook
References
Appendix: Linguistic features in alphabetic order
Index

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