Register Genre And Style

Author : Douglas Biber,Susan Conrad
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521860604

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Register, Genre, and Style by Douglas Biber,Susan Conrad Pdf

This book describes the most important kinds of texts in English and introduces the methodological techniques used to analyse them. Three analytical approaches are introduced and compared, describing a wide range of texts from the perspectives of register, genre and style. The primary focus of the book is on the analysis of registers. Part 1 introduces an analytical framework for studying registers, genre conventions, and styles. Part 2 provides detailed descriptions of particular text varieties in English, including spoken interpersonal varieties (conversation, university office hours, service encounters), written varieties (newspapers, academic prose, fiction), and emerging electronic varieties (e-mail, internet forums, text messages). Finally, Part 3 introduces advanced analytical approaches using corpora, and discusses theoretical concerns, such as the place of register studies in linguistics, and practical applications of register analysis. Each chapter ends with three types of activities: reflection and review activities, analysis activities, and larger project ideas.

Author : Douglas Biber
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1995-08-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521473316

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Dimensions of Register Variation by Douglas Biber Pdf

Douglas Biber's new book extends and refines the research and methodology reported in his ground breaking Variation Across Speech and Writing (CUP 1988). In Dimensions of Register Variation he gives a linguistic analysis of register in four widely differing languages: English, Nukulaelae Tuvaluan, Korean, and Somali. Using the multi-dimensional analytical framework employed in his earlier work, Biber carries out a principled comparison of both synchronic and diachronic patterns of variation across the four languages. Striking similarities as well as differences emerge, allowing Biber to predict for the first time cross-linguistic universals of register variation. This major new work will provide the foundation for the further investigation of cross-linguistic universals governing the pattern of discourse variation across registers, and will be of wide interest to any scholar interested in style, register and literacy.

Author : Susan Conrad,Douglas Biber
Publisher : Pearson Education ESL
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : English language
ISBN : 0135155878

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Real Grammar by Susan Conrad,Douglas Biber Pdf

Grammar instruction based on corpus research. 50 grammatical structures presented in context. With activities, and answers in attached booklet. Suitable for self-study, building vocabulary, and developing grammar, reading and writing skills.

Author : Charles Bazerman,Adair Bonini
Publisher : Parlor Press LLC
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781643170015

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Genre in a Changing World by Charles Bazerman,Adair Bonini Pdf

Genre studies and genre approaches to literacy instruction continue to develop in many regions and from a widening variety of approaches. Genre has provided a key to understanding the varying literacy cultures of regions, disciplines, professions, and educational settings. GENRE IN A CHANGING WORLD provides a wide-ranging sampler of the remarkable variety of current work. The twenty-four chapters in this volume, reflecting the work of scholars in Europe, Australasia, and North and South America, were selected from the over 400 presentations at SIGET IV (the Fourth International Symposium on Genre Studies) held on the campus of UNISUL in Tubarão, Santa Catarina, Brazil in August 2007—the largest gathering on genre to that date. The chapters also represent a wide variety of approaches, including rhetoric, Systemic Functional Linguistics, media and critical cultural studies, sociology, phenomenology, enunciation theory, the Geneva school of educational sequences, cognitive psychology, relevance theory, sociocultural psychology, activity theory, Gestalt psychology, and schema theory. Sections are devoted to theoretical issues, studies of genres in the professions, studies of genre and media, teaching and learning genre, and writing across the curriculum. The broad selection of material in this volume displays the full range of contemporary genre studies and sets the ground for a next generation of work.

Author : Douglas Biber,Jesse Egbert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-23
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781107122161

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Register Variation on the Web by Douglas Biber,Jesse Egbert Pdf

Explores and provides situational and linguistic descriptions of the full range of registers found on the searchable web.

Author : Vijay Kumar Bhatia
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2004-06-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0826454453

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Worlds of Written Discourse by Vijay Kumar Bhatia Pdf

This book extends the scope and coverage of genre theory, giving more emphasis to what is known as pragmatic space; in other words it integrates the study of discourse at the textual level with the study of how that discourse operates in its social context.

Author : Douglas Biber,Randi Reppen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1108744354

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The Cambridge Handbook of English Corpus Linguistics by Douglas Biber,Randi Reppen Pdf

The Cambridge Handbook of English Corpus Linguistics (CHECL) surveys the breadth of corpus-based linguistic research on English, including chapters on collocations, phraseology, grammatical variation, historical change, and the description of registers and dialects. The most innovative aspects of the CHECL are its emphasis on critical discussion, its explicit evaluation of the state of the art in each sub-discipline, and the inclusion of empirical case studies. While each chapter includes a broad survey of previous research, the primary focus is on a detailed description of the most important corpus-based studies in this area, with discussion of what those studies found, and why they are important. Each chapter also includes a critical discussion of the corpus-based methods employed for research in this area, as well as an explicit summary of new findings and discoveries.

Author : Heidrun Dorgeloh,Anja Wanner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783110226478

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Syntactic Variation and Genre by Heidrun Dorgeloh,Anja Wanner Pdf

Review text: "Without a doubt, the volume in its entirety is inspiring. ... The articles are all written in an accessible style, so that the publication is suitable not only for experts, but also for students of linguistics. It is recommendable to all who want to broaden their horizons and embark on linguistic studies at the borders of traditional sub-disciplines."Sixta Quassdorf in: Linguist List 22.3028.

Author : Braj B. Kachru,Yamuna Kachru,Cecil L. Nelson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 833 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781405188319

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The Handbook of World Englishes by Braj B. Kachru,Yamuna Kachru,Cecil L. Nelson Pdf

The Handbook of World Englishes is a collection of newly commissioned articles focusing on selected critical dimensions and case studies of the theoretical, ideological, applied and pedagogical issues related to English as it is spoken around the world. Represents the cross-cultural and international contextualization of the English language Articulates the visions of scholars from major varieties of world Englishes – African, Asian, European, and North and South American Discusses topics including the sociolinguistic contexts of varieties of English in the inner, outer, and expanding circles of its users; the ranges of functional domains in which these varieties are used; the place of English in language policies and language planning; and debates about English as a cause of language death, murder and suicide.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:30000000977714

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The Navy Chaplain by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004334236

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Teaching and Learning by Doing Corpus Analysis by Anonim Pdf

From the contents: Guy ASTON: The learner as corpus designer. - Antoinette RENOUF: The time dimension in modern English corpus linguistics. - Mike SCOTT: Picturing the key words of a very large corpus and their lexical upshots or getting at the guardian's view of the world. - Lou BURNARD: The BNC: where did we go wrong? Corpus-based teaching material. - Averil COXHEAD: The academic word list: a corpus-based word list for academic purposes.

Author : Douglas Biber,Bethany Gray,Shelley Staples,Jesse Egbert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000481921

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The Register-Functional Approach to Grammatical Complexity by Douglas Biber,Bethany Gray,Shelley Staples,Jesse Egbert Pdf

This collection brings together the authors' previous research with new work on the Register-Functional (RF) approach to grammatical complexity, offering a unified theoretical account for its further study. The book traces the development of the RF approach from its foundations in two major research strands of linguistics: the study of sociolinguistic variation and the text-linguistic study of register variation. Building on this foundation, the authors demonstrate the RF framework at work across a series of corpus-based research studies focused specifically on grammatical complexity in English. The volume highlights early work exploring patterns of grammatical complexity in present-day spoken and written registers as well as subsequent studies which extend this research to historical patterns of register variation and the application of RF research to the study of writing development for L1 and L2 English university students. Taken together, along with the addition of introductory chapters connecting the different studies, the volume offers readers with a comprehensive resource to better understand the RF approach to grammatical complexity and its implications for future research. The volume will appeal to students and scholars with research interests in either descriptive linguistics or applied linguistics, especially those interested in grammatical complexity and empirical, corpus-based approaches.

Author : Douglas Biber,Bethany Gray
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107009264

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Grammatical Complexity in Academic English by Douglas Biber,Bethany Gray Pdf

Using corpus-based analyses, the book challenges widely held beliefs about grammatical complexity, academic writing, and linguistic change in written English.

Author : Alessandro Duranti
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780470997260

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A Companion to Linguistic Anthropology by Alessandro Duranti Pdf

A Companion to Linguistic Anthropology provides a series of in-depth explorations of key concepts and approaches by some of the scholars whose work constitutes the theoretical and methodological foundations of the contemporary study of language as culture. Provides a definitive overview of the field of linguistic anthropology, comprised of original contributions by leading scholars in the field Summarizes past and contemporary research across the field and is intended to spur students and scholars to pursue new paths in the coming decades Includes a comprehensive bibliography of over 2000 entries designed as a resource for anyone seeking a guide to the literature of linguistic anthropology

Author : John M. Swales
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2004-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 0521533341

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Research Genres by John M. Swales Pdf

This book provides a rich and accessible account of genre studies by a world-renowned applied linguist. The hardback edition discusses today's research world, its various configurations of genres, and the role of English within the genres. Theoretical and methodological issues are explored, with a special emphasis on various metaphors of genre. The book is full of carefully worded detail and each chapter ends with suggestions for pedagogical practice. The volume closes with evaluations of contrastive rhetoric, applied corpus linguistics, and critical approaches to EAP. Research Genres provides a rich and scholarly account of this key area.