Contrastive Register Variation
A Quantitative Approach to the Comparison of English and German
1st Edition
Published on 12. December 2013
XX, 361 pages
978-3-11-023859-4 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin/Boston
Germany
Publishing group
de Gruyter Mouton
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Illustrations
60 s/w Tabellen
60 b/w tbl.
File size
3,11 MB
ISBN-13
978-3-11-023859-4 (9783110238594)
DOI
http://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110238594
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Stella Neumann
Contrastive Register Variation
A Quantitative Approach to the Comparison of English and German
Book
12/2013
1st Edition
De Gruyter Mouton
€189.95
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Person
Stella Neumann, RWTH Aachen University, Germany.
Content
- 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
