Using corpora to explore linguistic variation
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
Using corpora to explore linguistic variation
(Studies in corpus linguistics, v. 9)
John Benjamins, c2002
- : eur. : hb
- : us : hb
Available at 43 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Using Corpora to Explore Linguistic Variation illustrates the ways in which linguistic variation can be explored through corpus-based investigation. Two major kinds of research questions are considered: variation in the use of a particular linguistic feature, and variation across dialects or registers. Part 1: "Exploring variation in the use of linguistic features" focuses on the study of specific words, expressions, or grammatical constructions, to study variation in the use of a particular linguistic feature. Part 2: "Exploring dialect and register variation" describes salient characteristics of dialects or registers and the patterns of variation across varieties. Part 3: "Exploring Historical Variation" applies these same two major perspectives to historical variation. One recurring theme is the extent to which linguistic variation depends on register differences, reflecting the importance of register as a key methodological and thematic concern in current corpus linguistic research.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Part I: Exploring variation in the use of linguistic features
- 3. 1. Cross-disciplinary comparisons of hedging: Some findings from the Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English (by Poos, Deanna)
- 4. 2. Would as a hedging device in an Irish context: An intra-varietal comparison of institutionalised spoken interaction (by Farr, Fiona)
- 5. 3. Good listenership made plain: British and American non-minimal response tokens in everyday conversation (by McCarthy, Michael)
- 6. 4. Variation in the distribution of modal verbs in the British National Corpus (by Kennedy, Graeme)
- 7. 5. Strong modality and negation in Russian (by Haan, Ferdinand de)
- 8. 6. Formulaic language in English academic writing: A corpus-based study of the formal and functional variation of a lexical phrase in different academic disciplines (by Oakey, David)
- 9. 7. Lexical bundles in Freshman composition (by Cortes, Viviana)
- 10. 8. Pseudo-Titles in the press genre of various components of the International Corpus of English (by Meyer, Charles)
- 11. 9. Pattern grammar, language teaching, and linguistic variation: Applications of a corpus-driven grammar (by Hunston, Susan)
- 12. Part II: Exploring dialect or register variation
- 13. 10. Syntactic features of Indian English: An examination of written Indian English (by Rogers, Chandrika K.)
- 14. 11. Variation in academic lectures: Interactivity and level of instruction (by Csomay, Eniko)
- 15. Part III: Exploring historical variation
- 16. 12. The textual resolution of structural ambiguity in eighteenth-century English: A corpus linguistic study of patterns of negation (by Fitzmaurice, Susan)
- 17. 13. Investigating register variation in nineteenth-century English: A multi-dimensional comparison (by Geisler, Christer)
- 18. Index
by "Nielsen BookData"