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.
Recenzijas
The editors of this volume have succeeded in collecting together a handsome array of papers that will promote further advances in the field. -- Merja Kytö, Uppsala University, in Language Vol.82(2), 2006
1. Introduction;
2. Part I: Exploring variation in the use of linguistic
features;
3. 1. Cross-disciplinary comparisons of hedging: Some findings from
the Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English (by Poos, Deanna);
4. 2. Would
as a hedging device in an Irish context: An intra-varietal comparison of
institutionalised spoken interaction (by Farr, Fiona);
5. 3. Good
listenership made plain: British and American non-minimal response tokens in
everyday conversation (by McCarthy, Michael);
6. 4. Variation in the
distribution of modal verbs in the British National Corpus (by Kennedy,
Graeme);
7. 5. Strong modality and negation in Russian (by Haan, Ferdinand
de);
8. 6. Formulaic language in English academic writing: A corpus-based
study of the formal and functional variation of a lexical phrase in different
academic disciplines (by Oakey, David);
9. 7. Lexical bundles in Freshman
composition (by Cortes, Viviana);
10. 8. Pseudo-Titles in the press genre of
various components of the International Corpus of English (by Meyer,
Charles);
11. 9. Pattern grammar, language teaching, and linguistic
variation: Applications of a corpus-driven grammar (by Hunston, Susan);
12.
Part II: Exploring dialect or register variation;
13. 10. Syntactic features
of Indian English: An examination of written Indian English (by Rogers,
Chandrika K.);
14. 11. Variation in academic lectures: Interactivity and
level of instruction (by Csomay, Eniko);
15. Part III: Exploring historical
variation;
16. 12. The textual resolution of structural ambiguity in
eighteenth-century English: A corpus linguistic study of patterns of negation
(by Fitzmaurice, Susan);
17. 13. Investigating register variation in
nineteenth-century English: A multi-dimensional comparison (by Geisler,
Christer);
18. Index
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