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Death-related Intensifiers in the History of English
Grammaticalisation and Related Phenomena
Av Zeltia Blanco-Suárez, Graeme Davis m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
720 kr
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An all-important question for humans, death is unsurprisingly used as a source of intensification in language, perhaps even cross-linguistically. This book explores the use of death for intensification purposes in English and aims to shed light on how certain forms from this semantic field came to …
Corpus-based Study of Proper Names in Present-Day English
Aspects of Gradience and Article Usage
Häftad, 2005
1023 kr
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Based on a large sample of press data extracted from the British National Corpus (BNC), the book undertakes a detailed investigation of present-day English proper names, an important but under-researched area in English linguistics. Employing the statistical technique of binary logistic regression, …
Corpus Linguistics with «BNCweb» – a Practical Guide
Av Sebastian Hoffmann, Stefan Evert m. fl.
Häftad, 2008
499 kr
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This book presents a richly illustrated, hands-on discussion of one of the fastest growing fields in linguistics today. The authors address key methodological issues in corpus linguistics, such as collocations, keywords and the categorization of concordance lines. They show how these topics can be …
Postmodifying Attributive Adjectives in English
An Integrated Corpus-Based Approach
Häftad, 2008
769 kr
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This study investigates three different postmodifying adjective constructions in the English language. While English adjectives generally precede the entities they modify, they may also occur in postmodifying position. This study assumes that the different postmodifying constructions are a …
Nominal versus Clausal Complexity in Spoken and Written English
Theory and Description
Av Uta Schäpers
Häftad, 2009
769 kr
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Halliday has claimed that neither spoken nor written language is more complex than the other per se, but that the two mediums show different degrees of complexity on different levels. He argues that written language uses more lexical items within the clause whereas spoken language uses more clauses …
Metadiscourse in Middle English and Early Modern English Religious Texts
A corpus-based study
Inbunden, 2009
896 kr
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In the last three decades, metadiscourse has caught the attention of numerous scholars from various research disciplines. This book adds to the discussion by looking at the phenomenon from a historical angle. Text analyses with a corpus of sermons and religious treatises from the 13th to the 18th …
Non-native Speech
A Corpus-based Analysis of Phonological and Phonetic Properties of L2 English and German
Av Ulrike Gut
Inbunden, 2009
1381 kr
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Based on an innovative corpus-based approach, this book offers a comprehensive survey of the phonological and phonetic properties of L2 speech in English and German. The first part of the book critically examines current theoretical models and research methodologies in the field of second language …
Syntactic Dislocation in English Congregational Song between 1500 and 1900
A Corpus-based Study
Inbunden, 2014
869 kr
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A famous English hymn does not start with He who would be valiant, but He who would valiant be with valiant in dislocated position in the clause. The aim of this study is to analyse syntactic dislocation in English congregational song between 1500 and 1900 and to examine its motivations and …
Conversational Writing
A Multidimensional Study of Synchronous and Supersynchronous Computer-Mediated Communication
Av Ewa Jonsson
Inbunden, 2016
1097 kr
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The author analyses computer chat as a form of communication. While some forms of computer-mediated communication (CMC) deviate only marginally from traditional writing, computer chat is popularly considered to be written conversation and the most «oral» form of written CMC. This book …
Functions of ‹General Nouns›
Theory and Corpus Analysis
Av Vera Benninghoven, Joybrato Mukherjee
Inbunden, 2018
855 kr
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The author critically discusses the concept of ‹general nouns›, which Halliday/Hasan introduced in their approach to lexical cohesion (1976), and she provides a comprehensive overview of these nouns from a micro- and a macro-linguistic perspective. For the empirical analysis, the author compiled a …
Corpora in Language Teaching and Learning
Potential, Evaluation, Challenges
Av Yvonne Breyer, Joybrato Mukherjee
Inbunden, 2011
586 kr
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This book highlights the potential and the challenges of corpora in language education with a particular focus on the teacher’s perspective. For this purpose, the study explores the relevance of the corpus approach to central paradigms underlying contemporary language education. Furthermore, a …
Web of New Words
A Corpus-Based Study of the Conventionalization Process of English Neologisms
Inbunden, 2015
698 kr
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This book presents the first large-scale usage-based investigation of the conventionalization process of English neologisms in the online speech community. The study answers the longstanding question of how and why some neologisms become part of the English lexicon and others do not. It strings …
