The use of language corpora, or large samples of natural texts, has become ubiquitous in linguistic research. Yet, there are no conceptual or methodological frameworks for corpus representativeness. This book is the first to provide the field of linguistics with a comprehensive framework for corpus design, evaluation, and representativeness.
Originally published in 1972, Themes and Images in the Medieval English Religious Lyric discusses themes and images in religious lyric poetry in Medieval English poetry.
An updated new edition that provides detailed descriptions of important text varieties in English along with methodological techniques to carry out analyses of them, including conversation, newspaper writing, academic prose and social media. Each chapter ends with activities for the reader to apply and practice the analyses they read about.
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.
"While other books focus on special internet registers, like tweets or texting, no previous study describes the full range of everyday registers found on the searchable web. These are the documents that readers encounter every time they do a Google search, from registers like news reports, product reviews, travel blogs, discussion forums, FAQs, etc. Based on analysis of a large, near-random corpus of web documents, this monograph provides comprehensive situational, lexical, and grammatical descriptions of those registers. Beginning with a coding of each document in the corpus, the description identifies the registers that are especially common on the searchable web versus those that are less commonly found. Multi-dimensional analysis is used to describe the overall patterns of linguistic variation among web registers, while the second half of the book provides an in-depth description of each individual register, including analyses of situational contexts and communicative purposes, together with the typical lexical and grammatical characteristics associated with those contexts"-- Provided by publisher
This is an advanced grammar reference. It combines explanations of English grammar with information on how, when and why we use different structures. It shows the differences between spoken and written grammar and includes frequency information of the most common forms.
This book describes the most important kinds of texts in English and introduces the methodological techniques used to analyse them. Three analytical approaches are introduced and compared, describing a wide range of texts from the perspectives of register, genre and style. The primary focus of the book is on the analysis of registers. Part 1 introduces an analytical framework for studying registers, genre conventions, and styles. Part 2 provides detailed descriptions of particular text varieties in English, including spoken interpersonal varieties (conversation, university office hours, service encounters), written varieties (newspapers, academic prose, fiction), and emerging electronic varieties (e-mail, internet forums, text messages). Finally, Part 3 introduces advanced analytical approaches using corpora, and discusses theoretical concerns, such as the place of register studies in linguistics, and practical applications of register analysis. Each chapter ends with three types of activities: reflection and review activities, analysis activities, and larger project ideas.
invaluable for students on university and teacher-training courses checks your knowledge of how English is actually used in speech and writing shows how grammar differs in different contexts of registers provides practice with relationships between grammar and vocabulary all examples taken from naturally occurring English texts and conversations comparisons between British English and American English spoken and written extracts throughout* full answer key
Exploring the intricate relationship between language and its social context, this collection delves into various linguistic theories and methodologies. It examines how language shapes identity, culture, and communication while addressing contemporary issues in linguistics. The contributors offer insights into phonetics, syntax, semantics, and sociolinguistics, making it a valuable resource for students and researchers alike. Through diverse perspectives, the work highlights the dynamic nature of language and its role in human interaction.
The " Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English " is a revolutionary, corpus-based reference grammar of English, based on a groundbreaking research project to analyze the ways in which English grammar is really used. The book looks at four text types "conversation, fiction, news reportage, and academic prose" and reports statistical findings as well as examining the reasons that condition a particular grammatical choice. "