Variation in Time and Space: Observing the World through Corpora

Published by De Gruyter 2021

Variation in Time and Space

Observing the World through Corpora

Edited by: Anna Čermáková and Markéta Malá

Volume 20 in the series Diskursmuster / Discourse Patterns

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110604719

Overview
Contents

About this book

Variation in Time and Space: Observing the World through Corpora is a collection of articles that address the theme of linguistic variation in English in its broadest sense. Current research in English language presented in the book explores a fascinating number of topics, whose unifying element is the corpus linguistic methodology. Part I of this volume, Meaning in Time and Space, introduces the two dimensions of variation – time and space – relating them to the negotiation of meaning in discourse and questions of intertextuality. Part II, Variation in Time, approaches the English language from a diachronic point of view; the time periods covered vary considerably, ranging from 16^th century up to present-day; so do the genres explored. Part III, Variation in Space, focuses on global varieties of English and includes a contrastive point of view. The range of topics is again broad – from specific lexico-grammatical structures to the variation in academic English, combining the regional and genre dimensions of variation. This is a timely volume that shows the breadth and depth in current corpus-based research of English.

Author / Editor information

Anna Čermáková, Cambridge University, UK, and Charles University; Markéta Malá, Charles University Prague, Czechia.

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Introduction Anna Č Čermáková and Markéta Malá Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I Meaning in time and space
Digital discourse and its discontents Wolfgang Teubert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
Text, intertext and meaning Michael Stubbs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
Hic sunt dracones Gaëtanelle Gilquin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
II Variation in time
Presenting knowledge of the world Sirkku Ruokkeinen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
Interpreting the world of late modern English medical writing Maura Ratia and Carla Suhr Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
A corpus-based analysis of grammarians’ references in 19^th-century British grammars Beatrix Busse, Kirsten Gather and Ingo Kleiber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
Construing justice Cinzia Bevitori Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
III Variation in space
Variation in the complementiser choice between if and whether Daniela Kolbe-Hanna Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
Using intensifier-adjective collocations to investigate mechanisms of change Martin Schweinberger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
There’s different types Guyanne Wilson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
Academic prose across countries Vander Viana and John Kirk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283
A corpus-based study of metadiscoursal boosters in applied linguistics dissertations written in Thailand and in the United States Krittaya Ngampradit Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	321
Patterns and meanings of hedging verbs in English-medium research articles by Chinese and Western scholars Yuesen Yang and Naixing Wei Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	351
The EMI campus as site and source for a multimodal corpus Michael P. Stevens, Yu-Hua Chen and Simon Harrison Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	377
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	403

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics in English Studies, Corpus Linguistics, English as Second Language, Diachronic Linguistics, and Discourse Studies.
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 405
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 22
- Coloured Illustrations: 25
- Tables: 53
Keywords: English Language; Second Language Acquisition; Corpus (Linguistics)

eBook

Published: December 7, 2020
ISBN: 9783110604719

Hardcover

Published: December 7, 2020
ISBN: 9783110601923