
Corpus-based Approaches to Register Variation
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- Intro
- Corpus-based Approaches to Register Variation
- Editorial page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Table of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Biographical notes
- Chapter 1. A corpus-based approach to register variation
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Contributions to this volume
- Corpora
- References
- Chapter 2. Extending text-linguistic studies of register variation to a continuous situational space: Case studies from the web and natural conversation
- 1. Introduction
- 1.1 Methodological and theoretical issues arising in previous empirical studies of situational variation
- 2. Case study 1: Situational variation among web documents
- 2.1 Background
- 2.2 Coding scheme and multi-dimensional analysis
- 2.3 Situational text types on the web
- 3. Case study 2: Conversational discourse types
- 3.1 Coding discourse units in extended conversations
- 3.2 Analysing continuous communicative parameters to identify and describe conversational discourse types
- 4. Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 3. How register-specific is probabilistic grammatical knowledge?: A programmatic sketch and a case study on the dative alternation with give
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Register in variationist linguistics
- 3. A programmatic sketch
- 3.1 Research questions
- 3.2 Methodology
- 4. Case study: The dative alternation in English
- 4.1 Variable context
- 4.2 Language-internal constraints
- 4.3 Analysis
- 4.4 Results
- 5. Discussion and conclusion
- References
- Chapter 4. Theme as a proxy for register categorization
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Theoretical bases
- 2.1 Theoretical framework: Systemic Functional Linguistics
- 2.2 Theme: Concept and categorization
- 2.3 Theme and register in systemic functional linguistics
- 3. An empirical analysis of register
- 4. Summary, conclusions and further research
- Funding
- References
- Chapter 5. Between context and community: Regional variation in register effects in the English dative alternation
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Combining the variationist perspective with register studies
- 3. Data and methodology
- 3.1 The data
- 3.2 Coding of variables: Language-internal and -external constraints
- 3.3 Statistical measures
- 4. Results
- 4.1 Overall distribution by register and variety
- 4.2 The importance of context vs community
- 4.3 Cross-regional variation in register effects
- 5. Discussion
- 6. Conclusion
- References
- Appendix
- Chapter 6. A register variation perspective on varieties of English
- 1. Introduction
- 2. State of the art
- 3. Data
- 3.1 The corpus
- 3.2 Feature extraction
- 4. Geometric multivariate analysis
- 4.1 The first four dimensions of the LDA
- 4.2 Observations about variation across the three varieties
- 4.3 General discussion
- 5. Conclusions
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Chapter 7. Register and modification in the noun phrase
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Registers
- 3. Data and method
- 4. Prenominal modification
- 5. Prepositional phrases as postnominal modifiers
- 6. Clauses as postnominal modifiers
- 7. Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 8. A register approach toward pop lyrics in EFL education
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Previous register-based research on pop lyrics
- 3. Data and methodology
- 4. Results
- 4.1 Situational characteristics
- 4.2 Linguistic analysis
- 5. Lyrics and conversationality: Discussion and implications for EFL education
- References
- Chapter 9. On the importance of register in learner writing: A multi-dimensional approach
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Register variation in learner corpus research
- 3. Data and method
- 3.1 Corpora
- 3.2 Method
- 4. Results and discussion
- 4.1 The dimensions
- 4.2 The effect of L1 background, NS status, and register
- 5. Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 10. Nominalizations in Early Modern English: A cross-register perspective
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Sources and methodology
- 3. Results
- 3.1 Overall distribution of nominalization across registers
- 3.2 Diachronic distribution of nominalizations across registers
- 3.3 Suffix productivity diachronically
- 4. Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- Funding
- References
- Chapter 11. Measuring informativity: The rise of compounds as informationally dense structures in 20th-century Scientific English
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Methods
- 2.1 Data
- 2.2 Data-driven periodization with Kullback-Leibler divergence
- 2.3 Determining informativity: Surprisal
- 3. Tracing change in grammatical use in 20th-century Scientific English
- 3.1 The temporal dynamics of grammatical use in 20th-century Scientific English
- 3.2 Kinds of change in grammatical use: Inspecting distinctive patterns
- 3.3 Tracing changes towards the use of informationally dense structures
- 4. Tracing the development of informationally dense structures
- 5. Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 12. Exploring sub-register variation in Victorian newspapers: Evidence from the British Library Newspapers database
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Register analysis using BL Newspapers
- 3. Material and method
- 3.1 Extracting a sample
- 3.2 Method of analysis
- 4. Results
- 5. Discussion and conclusions
- References
- Appendix A
- Index
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