32.1323, Books: Register Variation Online: Biber, Egbert

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Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2021 22:59:58
From: Rachel Tonkin [rtonkin at cambridge.org]
Subject: Register Variation Online: Biber, Egbert

 


Title: Register Variation Online 
Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/discourse-analysis/register-variation-online?format=PB 


Author: Douglas Biber
Author: Jesse Egbert

Paperback: ISBN:  9781107552517 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 33.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781107552517 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 25.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781107552517 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 30.33


Abstract:

While other books focus on special internet registers, like tweets or texting,
no previous study describes the full range of everyday registers found on the
searchable web. These are the documents that readers encounter every time they
do a Google search, from registers like news reports, product reviews, travel
blogs, discussion forums, FAQs, etc. Based on analysis of a large, near-random
corpus of web documents, this monograph provides comprehensive situational,
lexical, and grammatical descriptions of those registers. Beginning with a
coding of each document in the corpus, the description identifies the
registers that are especially common on the searchable web versus those that
are less commonly found. Multi-dimensional analysis is used to describe the
overall patterns of linguistic variation among web registers, while the second
half of the book provides an in-depth description of each individual register,
including analyses of situational contexts and communicative purposes,
together with the typical lexical and grammatical characteristics associated
with those contexts.
 



1. Introduction; 2. Corpus and methods; 3. A survey of the registers on the
public searchable web; 4. Overall patterns of register variation on the
searchable web: a multi-dimensional analysis; 5. Narrative registers; 6.
Opinion, advice, and persuasion registers; 7. Informational descriptions,
explanations, and procedures; 8. Oral registers; 9. The web as a continuous
space of register variation; Appendix A. Linguistic features included in the
multi-dimensional analysis; Appendix B. Lexicogrammatical features included in
the key feature analysis; Appendix C. Descriptive statistics for the key
feature analyses.
 


Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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