Using Corpora to Explore Linguistic Variation
1st Edition
Published on 29. November 2002
XII, 275 pages
978-90-272-9616-0 (ISBN)
Description
Using Corpora to Explore Linguistic Variation illustrates the ways in which linguistic variation can be explored through corpus-based investigation. Two major kinds of research questions are considered: variation in the use of a particular linguistic feature, and variation across dialects or registers. Part 1: "Exploring variation in the use of linguistic features" focuses on the study of specific words, expressions, or grammatical constructions, to study variation in the use of a particular linguistic feature. Part 2: "Exploring dialect and register variation" describes salient characteristics of dialects or registers and the patterns of variation across varieties. Part 3: "Exploring Historical Variation" applies these same two major perspectives to historical variation. One recurring theme is the extent to which linguistic variation depends on register differences, reflecting the importance of register as a key methodological and thematic concern in current corpus linguistic research.
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- Using Corpora to Explore Linguistic Variation
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC page
- Table of contents
- Introduction
- Part I Exploring variation in the use of linguistic features
- Chapter 1 Cross-disciplinary comparisons of hedging
- Notes
- References
- Chapter 2 Would as a hedging device in an Irish context
- Notes
- References
- Chapter 3 Good listenership made plain
- Transcription conventions
- References
- Chapter 4 Variation in the distribution of modal verbs in the British National Corpus
- Note
- References
- Chapter 5 Strong modality and negation in Russian
- Notes
- References
- Chapter 6 Formulaic language in English academic writing
- Notes
- References
- Chapter 7 Lexical bundles in Freshman composition
- References
- Chapter 8 Pseudo-Titles in the press genre of various components of the International Corpus of English
- Notes
- References
- Chapter 9 Pattern grammar, language teaching, and linguistic variation
- Notes
- References
- Part II Exploring dialect or register variation
- Chapter 10 Syntactic features of Indian English
- Notes
- References
- Chapter 11 Variation in academic lectures
- Appendix
- Notes
- References
- Part III Exploring historical variation
- Chapter 12 The textual resolution of structural ambiguity in eighteenth-century English
- Notes
- References
- Chapter 13 Investigating register variation in nineteenth-century English
- Note
- References
- Index
- The series STUDIES IN CORPUS LINGUISTICS (SCL)
