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Register, genre, and style / Douglas Biber; Susan Conrad

Biber, Douglas, 1952- ; Conrad, Susan, 1960-

Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge University Press, 2009

Online-Ressource

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references and index

Druckausg.: Register, genre, and style / Biber, Douglas

978-0-511-65694-1

978-0-521-67789-9 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 816347977 (aus SWB)     

ET 760      Ähnliche Literatur

306.44

Basisklassifikation: 17.40 (Angewandte Sprachwissenschaft: Allgemeines) ; 18.04 (Englische Sprache) ; 17.63 (Textlinguistik)

*Englisch ; Textsorte ; Register <Linguistik>      Zum Register

Register (Linguistics) ; Electronic books ; Englisch ; Register ; Textsorte ; Register (Linguistics) ; Sociolinguistics ; English language / Social aspects

This book describes a range of the most important kinds of texts in English and introduces methodological techniques used to analyse them.

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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Registers, genres, and styles: fundamental varieties of language -- 1.1 Text varieties in your daily life -- 1.1.1 Why is it important to analyze text varieties? -- 1.2 Texts, varieties, registers, and dialects -- 1.3 Registers and register analysis: an overview -- 1.3.1 Register analysis: situation, linguistic features, functions -- Text Sample 1.1 Conversation (a group of friends is walking to a restaurant) -- 1.3.2 More details about registers and register analysis -- 1.3.2.1 The situational characteristics of registers are more basic than the linguistic features -- 1.3.2.2 Registers differ in their characteristic distributions of pervasive linguistic features, not the single occurrence of an individual feature -- 1.3.2.3 Register analysis requires both situational and linguistic analysis, often applied cyclically -- 1.3.2.4 Register variation has a functional basis -- 1.3.2.5 Registers can be identified on different levels of specificity -- 1.3.2.6 Register analyses must be based on a representative sample of texts -- 1.3.3 Registers versus dialects -- 1.3.4 Comparing register variation and dialect variation -- Text Sample 1.2 Working-class conversation (Hampshire, England) -- Text Sample 1.3 Middle-class conversation (Devon, England) -- Text Sample 1.4 Systems analysis textbook -- 1.4 Different perspectives on text varieties: register, genre, style -- 1.4.1 Register, genre, and style perspectives in this book -- Text Sample 1.5 Newspaper article Investigators Take Last Look at Subway Wreckage -- 1.4.2 Genre and style in literary studies -- Text Sample 1.6 Poetry -- Text Sample 1.7 Drama -- Text Sample 1.8 Fictional Prose -- 1.4.3 Register, genre and style in previous research -- 1.5 Register/genre variation as a linguistic universal -- 1.6 Overview of the book -- Part I Analytical framework.