Grammatical Complexity in Academic English: Linguistic Change in Writing

ISBN-13: 9781108712958 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 291 str.

Douglas Biber;Bethany Gray (Northern Arizona Universit

Opis

Richly illustrated throughout with textual analyses, this book challenges widely held beliefs about grammatical complexity, academic writing, and linguistic change in English. This important new work will be of interest to discourse analysts, sociolinguists, and applied linguists, as well as descriptive linguists and historical linguists.

Recenzje

'This book is most useful for linguists or academic scholars interested in language change, textual features (especially as those features intersect with communicative or social functions), and/or corpus-based research.' Jessie Sams, Linguist List

Spis treści

1. Academic writing: challenging the stereotypes; 2. Using corpora to analyze grammatical change; 3. Phrasal versus clausal discourse styles: a synchronic grammatical description of academic writing contrasted with other registers; 4. The historical evolution of phrasal discourse styles in academic writing; 5. The functional extension of phrasal grammatical features in academic writing; 6. The loss of explicitness in academic research writing; 7. Conclusion.