ISBN:
9780511656941
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource
Series Statement:
Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
Series Statement:
Cambridge textbooks in linguistics
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. Biber, Douglas, 1952 - Register, genre, and style
DDC:
306.44
Keywords:
Register (Linguistics)
;
Electronic books
;
Englisch
;
Register
;
Textsorte
;
Register (Linguistics)
;
Sociolinguistics
;
English language
;
Social aspects
;
Englisch
;
Textsorte
;
Register
Abstract:
This book describes a range of the most important kinds of texts in English and introduces methodological techniques used to analyse them.
Abstract:
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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=471982
