Register Variation Online

ISBN-13: 9781107552517 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 264 str.

Douglas Biber; Jesse Egbert

Opis

Explores and provides situational and linguistic descriptions of the full range of registers found on the searchable web.

Recenzje

'Overall, this monograph is impressive in extracting multi-dimensions to account for the register variation on the Web. Given its persuasive elaboration and innovative insights, this monograph is an invaluable asset for researchers and students in register variation, discourse analysis, corpus linguistics and other related studies.' Danping Wu, Discourse Studies

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. Corpus and methods; 3. A survey of the registers on the public searchable web; 4. Overall patterns of register variation on the searchable web: a multi-dimensional analysis; 5. Narrative registers; 6. Opinion, advice, and persuasion registers; 7. Informational descriptions, explanations, and procedures; 8. Oral registers; 9. The web as a continuous space of register variation; Appendix A. Linguistic features included in the multi-dimensional analysis; Appendix B. Lexicogrammatical features included in the key feature analysis; Appendix C. Descriptive statistics for the key feature analyses.