Corpus-based Approaches to Register Variation
Editors
| University of Vigo
| Northern Arizona University
As the first collective volume to focus exclusively on corpus-based approaches to register variation, this book provides an exhaustive account of the range and depth of possibilities that the domain of register variation in English has to offer. It illustrates register variation analysis in different theoretical frameworks, such as Probabilistic Grammar, Systemic Functional Linguistics, and Information Theory, and proposes a new framework within the Text Linguistic Approach: the continuous-situational analytical framework. Several of the contributions apply Multi-Dimensional Analysis to corpus data in order to unveil register (dis)similarities, while others rely on logistic regression models and periodization techniques based on Kullback-Leibler divergence. The volume includes both inter-register and intra-register variation analysis of a wide spectrum of varieties, speakers and periods: British and American English, learner varieties, L2 varieties, and also contains diachronic studies covering early and late Modern English. This broad scope should be a source of inspiration for anyone interested in historical and ongoing register variation in a vast range of varieties of English worldwide.
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 103] 2021. xi, 341 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Acknowledgements | pp. vii–viii
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Biographical notes | pp. ix–xii
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Chapter 1. A corpus-based approach to register variationElena Seoane and Douglas Biber | pp. 1–18
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Chapter 2. Extending text-linguistic studies of register variation to a continuous situational space: Case studies from the web and natural conversationDouglas Biber, Jesse Egbert, Daniel Keller and Stacey Wizner | pp. 19–50
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Chapter 3. How register-specific is probabilistic grammatical knowledge? A programmatic sketch and a case study on the dative alternation with giveAlexandra Engel, Jason Grafmiller, Laura Rosseel, Benedikt Szmrecsanyi and Freek Van de Velde | pp. 51–84
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Chapter 4. Theme as a proxy for register categorizationJavier Pérez-Guerra | pp. 85–110
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Chapter 5. Between context and community: Regional variation in register effects in the English dative alternationMelanie Röthlisberger | pp. 111–142
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Chapter 6. A register variation perspective on varieties of EnglishStella Neumann and Stefan Evert | pp. 143–178
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Chapter 7. Register and modification in the noun phraseYolande Botha and Maryka van Zyl | pp. 179–208
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Chapter 8. A register approach toward pop lyrics in EFL educationValentin Werner | pp. 209–234
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Chapter 9. On the importance of register in learner writing: A multi-dimensional approachTove Larsson, Magali Paquot and Douglas Biber | pp. 235–258
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Chapter 10. Nominalizations in Early Modern English: A cross-register perspectivePaula Rodríguez-Puente | pp. 259–290
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Chapter 11. Measuring informativity: The rise of compounds as informationally dense structures in 20th-century Scientific EnglishStefania Degaetano-Ortlieb | pp. 291–312
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Chapter 12. Exploring sub-register variation in Victorian newspapers: Evidence from the British Library Newspapers databaseTuro Hiltunen | pp. 313–338
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Index | pp. 339–341
Subjects & Metadata
BIC Subject: CFB – Sociolinguistics
BISAC Subject: LAN009050 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics