Linguistic Choice across Genres: Variation in spoken and written English
Edited by Antonia Sánchez-Macarro and Ronald Carter
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 158] 1998. viii, 347 pp.
Ronald Carter
List of John Benjamins publications for which Ronald Carter plays a role.
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Subjects Discourse studies | English linguistics | Functional linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics
Articles
2019 Chapter 9. Common Language: Corpus, creativity and cognition* Style, Rhetoric and Creativity in Language: In memory of Walter (Bill) Nash (1926-2015), Simpson, Paul (ed.), pp. 149–170 | Chapter
This chapter takes further debates concerning the nature of
literary language and the presence of literariness in a range of discourses
by exploring the extent to which everyday conversational discourse displays
literary properties. The author argues that studies of literary… read more
2019 Introduction Style, Rhetoric and Creativity in Language: In memory of Walter (Bill) Nash (1926-2015), Simpson, Paul (ed.), pp. 1–8 | Chapter
2015 Chapter 8. Chatting in the academy: Informality in spoken academic discourse Corpora, Grammar and Discourse: In honour of Susan Hunston, Groom, Nicholas, Maggie Charles and Suganthi John (eds.), pp. 183–210 | Article
In this chapter we explore a recently acknowledged phenomenon: the way in which formal discourse is increasingly now inflected with forms more commonly associated with informal discourse. The phenomenon has been referred to as conversationalisation or informalisation and has been discussed in… read more
2011 Capturing context for heterogeneous corpus analysis: Some first steps Applying Corpus Linguistics, Farr, Fiona and Anne O'Keeffe (eds.), pp. 305–324 | Article
Heterogeneous corpora are emergent multi-modal datasets which comprise a variety of different records of everyday communication, from SMS/MMS messages to interactions in virtual environments, and from GPS data to phone and video calls. By tracking a person’s specific (inter)actions over time and… read more
2011 Foreword Perspectives on Corpus Linguistics, Viana, Vander, Sonia Zyngier and Geoff Barnbrook (eds.), pp. ix–x | Miscellaneous
2004 Formulaic sequences in action: An introduction Formulaic Sequences: Acquisition, processing and use, Schmitt, Norbert (ed.), pp. 1–22 | Article
1990 Towards Discourse-Sensitive Cloze Procedures: The Role of Lexis Learning, Keeping and Using Language: Selected papers from the Eighth World Congress of Applied Linguistics, Sydney, 16–21 August 1987, Halliday, M.A.K. †, John Gibbons and Howard Nicholas (eds.), pp. 445–453 | Article
1987 Is there a literary language? Language Topics: Essays in honour of Michael Halliday, Steele, Ross and Terry Threadgold (eds.), pp. 431 ff. | Article
1987 Is there a literary language? Language Topics: Essays in honour of Michael Halliday, Steele, Ross and Terry Threadgold (eds.), pp. 431 ff. | Article