Variational Text Linguistics

Author : Christoph Schubert,Christina Sanchez-Stockhammer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 347 pages
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Release : 2016-05-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110435337

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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 : Christina Sanchez-Stockhammer,Christoph Schubert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3110443562

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Author : Christoph Schubert,Christina Sanchez-Stockhammer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110443554

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Variational Text Linguistics by Christoph Schubert,Christina Sanchez-Stockhammer Pdf

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 : Elke Teich
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110896541

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Cross-Linguistic Variation in System and Text by Elke Teich Pdf

The intuition that translations are somehow different from texts that are not translations has been around for many years, but most of the common linguistic frameworks are not comprehensive enough to account for the wealth and complexity of linguistic phenomena that make a translation a special kind of text. The present book provides a novel methodology for investigating the specific linguistic properties of translations. As this methodology is both corpus-based and driven by a functional theory of language, it is powerful enough to account for the multi-dimensional nature of cross-linguistic variation in translations and cross-lingually comparable texts.

Author : Benedikt Szmrecsanyi,Bernhard Wälchli
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110317558

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Aggregating Dialectology, Typology, and Register Analysis by Benedikt Szmrecsanyi,Bernhard Wälchli Pdf

This volume aims to overcome sub-disciplinary boundaries in the study of linguistic variation - be it language-internal or cross-linguistic. Even though dialectologists, register analysts, typologists, and quantitative linguists all deal with linguistic variation, there is astonishingly little interaction across these fields. But the fourteen contributions in this volume show that these subdisciplines actually share many interests and methodological concerns in common. The chapters specifically converge in the following ways: First, they all seek to explore linguistic variation, within or across languages. Second, they are based on usage data, that is, on corpora of (more or less) authentic text or speech of different languages or language varieties. Third, all chapters are concerned with the joint analysis (also sometimes known as “aggregation” or “data synthesis”) of multiple phenomena, features, or measurements of some sort. And lastly, the contributors all marshal quantitative analysis techniques to analyse the data. In short, the volume explores the text-feature-aggregation pipeline in variation studies, demonstrating that there is much mutual inspiration to be had by thinking outside the disciplinary box.

Author : Klaus P. Schneider,Anne Barron
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008-05-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027290502

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Variational Pragmatics by Klaus P. Schneider,Anne Barron Pdf

This collection of papers is designed to establish variational pragmatics. This new field is situated at the interface of pragmatics and dialectology and aims at systematically investigating the effect of macro-social pragmatic variation on language in action. As such, it challenges the widespread assumption in the area of pragmatics that language communities are homogeneous and also addresses the current research gap in sociolinguistics for variation on the pragmatic level. The introductory chapter establishes the rationale for studying variational pragmatics as a separate field of inquiry, systematically sketches the broader theoretical framework and presents a framework for further analysis. The papers which follow are located within this framework. They present empirical variational pragmatic research focusing on regional varieties of pluricentric languages. Speech acts and other discourse phenomena are addressed and analysed in a number of regional varieties of Dutch, English, French, German and Spanish. The seminal nature of this volume, its empirical orientation and the extensive bibliography make this book of interest to both researchers and students in pragmatics and sociolinguistics.

Author : Elena Seoane,Douglas Biber
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027258458

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Corpus-based Approaches to Register Variation by Elena Seoane,Douglas Biber Pdf

As the first collective volume to focus exclusively on corpus-based approaches to register variation, this book provides an exhaustive account of the range and depth of possibilities that the domain of register variation in English has to offer. It illustrates register variation analysis in different theoretical frameworks, such as Probabilistic Grammar, Systemic Functional Linguistics, and Information Theory, and proposes a new framework within the Text Linguistic Approach: the continuous-situational analytical framework. Several of the contributions apply Multi-Dimensional Analysis to corpus data in order to unveil register (dis)similarities, while others rely on logistic regression models and periodization techniques based on Kullback-Leibler divergence. The volume includes both inter-register and intra-register variation analysis of a wide spectrum of varieties, speakers and periods: British and American English, learner varieties, L2 varieties, and also contains diachronic studies covering early and late Modern English. This broad scope should be a source of inspiration for anyone interested in historical and ongoing register variation in a vast range of varieties of English worldwide.

Author : Tony Bex
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0415108403

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Variety in Written English by Tony Bex Pdf

This is the first proper text for students on genre analysis. It combines the insight of a variety of linguistic perspectives and demonstates how written texts operate within society to convey meaning.

Author : Karin Aijmer
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780748635511

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Understanding Pragmatic Markers by Karin Aijmer Pdf

An original study of pragmatic markers in a corpus of spoken English, with a focus on the functions performed by the markers in different types of text.

Author : Douglas Biber
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1991-12-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521425565

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Variation Across Speech and Writing by Douglas Biber Pdf

Similarities and differences between speech and writing have been the subject of innumerable studies, but until now there has been no attempt to provide a unified linguistic analysis of the whole range of spoken and written registers in English. In this widely acclaimed empirical study, Douglas Biber uses computational techniques to analyse the linguistic characteristics of twenty three spoken and written genres, enabling identification of the basic, underlying dimensions of variation in English. In Variation Across Speech and Writing, six dimensions of variation are identified through a factor analysis, on the basis of linguistic co-occurence patterns. The resulting model of variation provides for the description of the distinctive linguistic characteristics of any spoken or written text andd emonstrates the ways in which the polarization of speech and writing has been misleading, and thus enables reconciliation of the contradictory conclusions reached in previous research.

Author : Jan Renkema,Christoph Schubert
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027263100

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Introduction to Discourse Studies by Jan Renkema,Christoph Schubert Pdf

This new edition of Introduction to Discourse Studies (IDS) is a thoroughly revised and updated version of this successful textbook, which has been published in four languages and has become a must-read for anyone interested in the analysis of texts and discourses. Supported by an international advisory board of 14 leading experts, it deals with all main subdomains in discourse studies, from pragmatics to cognitive linguistics, from critical discourse analysis to stylistics, and many more. The book approaches major issues in this field from the Anglo-American and European as well as the Asian traditions. It provides an ‘academic toolkit’ for future courses on discourse studies and serves as a stepping stone to the independent study of professional literature. The chapters are subdivided in modular sections that can be studied separately. The pedagogical objectives are further supported by over 500 index entries covering frequently used concepts that are accurately defined with examples throughout the text; more than 150 test-yourself questions, all elaborately answered, which are ideal for self-study; nearly 100 assignments that provide ample material for lecturers to focus on specific topics in their courses. Jan Renkema is Emeritus Professor of Discourse Quality at the Department of Communication and Information Sciences at Tilburg University, The Netherlands. He is also editor of Discourse, of Course (2009) and author of The Texture of Discourse (2009). In 2009, a Chinese edition of Introduction to Discourse Studies was published by Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press. Christoph Schubert is Full Professor of English Linguistics at Vechta University, Germany. He is author of an Introduction to English text linguistics (2nd ed. 2012) and co-editor of Pragmatic Perspectives on Postcolonial Discourse (2016) and Variational Text Linguistics (2016).

Author : Randi Reppen,Susan M. Fitzmaurice,Douglas Biber
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2002-11-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027296160

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Using Corpora to Explore Linguistic Variation by Randi Reppen,Susan M. Fitzmaurice,Douglas Biber Pdf

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.

Author : Yuji Kawaguchi,Makoto Minegishi,Jacques Durand
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027207685

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Corpus Analysis and Variation in Linguistics by Yuji Kawaguchi,Makoto Minegishi,Jacques Durand Pdf

This new edition of TUFS Studies in Linguistics, we aim to showcase the various linguistics research conducted at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. In this first volume, we report on the international symposium hosted by the Global Center of Excellence Program "Corpus-based Linguistics and Language Education (CbLLE)" throughout 2008.

Author : Antonia Sánchez Macarro,Ronald Carter
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027236630

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Linguistic Choice Across Genres by Antonia Sánchez Macarro,Ronald Carter Pdf

This book, based on revised papers originally delivered at the VII International Systemic Functional Workshop in Valencia in 1995, explores some of the choices open to speakers and writers for the expression of meaning in different socio-cultural contexts. Many of the papers draw their inspiration from models of language developed by Michael Halliday and in particular recent theories of variation in relation to texts and genres explored by Halliday and his followers. There is an emphasis on the interdependence and interaction of linguistic choices across sentence boundaries and speaking turns, and also a consistent focus across many papers on the importance of lexicogrammar in the construction of texts. Several papers examine the differences between native-speaker and non-native-speaker choices in speech and writing. The volume also contributes to our understanding of differences and similarities between spoken and written varieties of English and of the central significance of interpersonal functions in the communication of messages. By drawing on naturally-occurring data collected on a range of genres as diverse as philosophy articles, scientific research papers, emergency telephone calls, and casual conversation, contributors both refine descriptions of the relations between text and context and offer numerous new insights and analyses.

Author : Ulrike Schneider,Matthias Eitelmann
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781350115521

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Linguistic Inquiries into Donald Trump’s Language by Ulrike Schneider,Matthias Eitelmann Pdf

From an abundance of intensifiers to frequent repetition and parallelisms, Donald Trump's idiolect is highly distinctive from that of other politicians and previous Presidents of the United States. Combining quantitative and qualitative analyses, this book identifies the characteristic features of Trump's language and argues that his speech style, often sensationalized by the media, differs from the usual political rhetoric on more levels than is immediately apparent. Chapters examine Trump's tweets, inaugural address, political speeches, interviews, and presidential debates, revealing populist language traits that establish his idiolect as a direct reflection of changing social and political norms. The authors scrutinize Trump's conspicuous use of nicknames, the definite article, and conceptual metaphors as strategies of othering and antagonising his opponents. They further shed light on Trump's fake news agenda and his mutation of the conventional political apology which are strategically implemented for a political purpose. Drawing on methods from corpus linguistics, conversation analysis, and critical discourse analysis, this book provides a multifaceted investigation of Trump's language use and addresses essential questions about Trump as a political phenomenon.