Variational Text Linguistics: Revisiting Register in English

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2016

Variational Text Linguistics

Revisiting Register in English

Edited by: Christoph Schubert and Christina Sanchez-Stockhammer

Volume 90 in the series Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110443554

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About this book

Owing to the ever-increasing possibilities of communication, especially with the advent of modern communication technologies, register analysis offers a constantly widening range of research opportunities. Still, research has mainly concentrated on well-established and frequent registers such as newspaper articles, while many descriptive and theoretical issues have not yet been sufficiently investigated.
This volume gives a state-of-the-art insight into register studies and points out emerging trends as well as new directions for future research. Furthermore, it provides a forum for the description and discussion of registers which have not received an appropriate amount of attention so far. In particular, it deals with specialized offline and online registers, cross-register comparison as well as regional, contrastive, and diachronic register variation.
In parallel to the new discipline of variational pragmatics, this volume aims to foster the discipline of ‘variational text linguistics’ and to initiate fundamental investigations in this area. This field of research provides new insights into the concept of register, since it covers both functional and regional types of textual variation.

Author / Editor information

Christoph Schubert, University of Vechta, Germany; Christina Sanchez-Stockhammer, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany.

Reviews

"In summary, the volume represents significant explorations of underrepresented registers, with a number of exciting methodological innovations, a great deal of future research potential, and a wealth of useful findings. The individual chapters are all well-presented and are underpinned by clear theoretical and methodological frameworks. The volume should be of great interest to corpus linguists and educators in the field, and a number of the studies are likely to have implications and impact outside of linguistics, notably the studies on Aviation English, hip-hop, and OCTs. On the whole, then, the volume is successful in achieving its stated aims."
Peter Crosthwaite in: Functions of Language 25:2 (2018), 328–334

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Acknowledgements Christoph Schubert and Christina Sanchez-Stockhammer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	v
Table of contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction: Current trends in register research Christoph Schubert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Section I: Specialised registers
Towards a user-based taxonomy of web registers Douglas Biber and Jesse Egbert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
The interrelationship of register and genre in medical discourse Heidrun Dorgeloh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
Aviation English: Two distinct specialised registers? Markus Bieswanger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
‘Now niggas talk a lotta Bad Boy shit’: The register hip-hop from a corpus-linguistic perspective Rolf Kreyer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
The register of English crossword puzzles: Studies in intertextuality Teresa Pham Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
Section II: Cross-register comparison
Punctuation as an indication of register: Comics and academic texts Christina Sanchez-Stockhammer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
Linking up register and cognitive perspectives: Parenthetical constructions in academic prose and experimentalist poetry Martina Lampert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
Cohesive devices across registers and varieties: The role of medium in English Stella Neumann and Jennifer Fest Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
Section III: Regional, contrastive and diachronic register variation
Metaphors in New English academic writing Barbara Güldenring Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
The influence of register on noun phrase complexity in varieties of English Steffen Schaub Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
Real-time online text commentaries: A cross-cultural perspective Valentin Werner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271
Word order is in order here: A diachronic register analysis of syntactic markedness in English Javier Pérez-Guerra Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	307
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	337

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Linguists, Teachers, Experts/Non-experts interested in Discourse Studies, Register Analysis, Corpus Linguistics
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 339
Keywords: Register Analysis; Variational Text Linguistics

eBook

Published: May 24, 2016
ISBN: 9783110443554

Hardcover

Published: May 24, 2016
ISBN: 9783110443103