33.481, Books: Corpus-based Approaches to Register Variation: Seoane, Biber (eds.)

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Subject: 33.481, Books: Corpus-based Approaches to Register Variation: Seoane, Biber (eds.)

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Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2022 14:49:09
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Corpus-based Approaches to Register Variation: Seoane, Biber (eds.)

 


Title: Corpus-based Approaches to Register Variation 
Series Title: Studies in Corpus Linguistics 103  

Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/scl.103 


Editor: Elena Seoane
Editor: Douglas Biber

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027258458 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027258458 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027258458 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 99.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027210548 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027210548 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027210548 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 104.94


Abstract:

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.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)


Written In: English  (eng)

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