Genre- and register-related discourse features in contrast

Special issue of Languages in Contrast 14:1 (2014)

Editors

Marie-Aude Lefer | Institut libre Marie Haps (Translation – Interpreting), Belgium

Svetlana Vogeleer | Institut libre Marie Haps (Translation – Interpreting), Belgium

[Languages in Contrast, 14:1] 2014. v, 161 pp.

Publishing status: Available

© John Benjamins Publishing Company

https://doi.org/10.1075/lic.14.1

Table of Contents

Articles

Introduction

Marie-Aude Lefer and Svetlana Vogeleer | pp. 1–5
Using multi-dimensional analysis to explore cross-linguistic universals of register variation

Douglas Biber | pp. 7–34
Cross-linguistic register studies: Theoretical and methodological considerations

Stella Neumann | pp. 35–57
A lexical bundle approach to comparing languages: Stems in English and French

Sylviane Granger | pp. 58–72
Discourse-structuring functions of initial adverbials in English and Norwegian news and fiction

Hilde Hasselgård | pp. 73–92
Canonical tag questions in English, Spanish and Portuguese: A discourse-functional study

María de los Ángeles Gómez González | pp. 93–126
Loving and hating the movies in English, German and Spanish

Maite Taboada, Marta Carretero and Jennifer Hinnell | pp. 127–161

Subjects & Metadata

Linguistics

Comparative linguistics

Theoretical linguistics

BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General