Douglas Biber (Northern Arizona University), Jesse Egbert (Northern Arizona University)

Register Variation Online

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

While there have been other books that focus on special internet registers, no previous study describes the full range of everyday registers found on the searchable web, such as news reports, travel blogs, discussion forums, and FAQs. This monograph provides comprehensive situational, lexical, and grammatical descriptions of multiple online registers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 394g
• ISBN-13: 9781107552517
• ISBN-10: 1107552516
• Artikelnr.: 60715562

Autorenporträt

Douglas Biber is Regents' Professor of English (Applied Linguistics) at Northern Arizona University. His research efforts have focused on corpus linguistics, English grammar, and register variation (in English and cross-linguistic; synchronic and diachronic). He has published over 220 research articles and 23 books and monographs, including primary research studies as well as textbooks.

Inhaltsangabe

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.