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Variation and Change in Spoken and Written Discourse
Perspectives from corpus linguistics
Editors
This book focuses on aspects of variation and change in language use in spoken and written discourse on the basis of corpus analyses, providing new descriptive insights, and new methods of utilising small specialized corpora for the description of language variation and change. The sixteen contributions included in this volume represent a variety of diverse views and approaches, but all share the common goal of throwing light on a crucial dimension of discourse: the dialogic interactivity between the spoken and written. Their foci range from papers addressing general issues related to corpus analysis of spoken dialogue to papers focusing on specific cases employing a variety of analytical tools, including qualitative and quantitative analysis of small and large corpora. The present volume constitutes a highly valuable tool for applied linguists and discourse analysts as well as for students, instructors and language teachers.
[Dialogue Studies, 21] 2013. xiii, 290 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 11 October 2013
Published online on 11 October 2013
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements | pp. vii–7
- IntroductionGiuliana Diani | pp. ix–xiii
- I. Corpus analysis of spoken dialogue
- i. Variation and academic dialogue
- 1 . Speaking professionally in an L2: Issues of corpus methodologyAnna Mauranen | pp. 5–32
- 2. Common features and variations in the use of personal pronouns in two types of monologic academic speechAkiko Okamura | pp. 33–44
- ii. Dialogue in spoken and written business discourse
- 3. Variation across spoken and written registers in internal corporate communication: Multimodality and blending in evolving genresJanet Bowker | pp. 47–64
- 4. Using grammatical tagging to explore spoken/written variation in small specialized corporaBelinda Crawford Camiciottoli | pp. 65–76
- iii. Dialogic variation and language varieties
- 5. Exploring regional variation in Italian question intonation: A corpus-based studyMichelina Savino | pp. 79–108
- 6. Estonian emotional speech corpus: Content and optionsRene Altrov and Hille Pajupuu | pp. 109–122
- 7. Using movie corpora to explore spoken American English: Evidence from multi-dimensional analysisPierfranca Forchini | pp. 123–136
- 8. “But that’s dialect, isn’t it?”: Exploring geographical variation in the SCOTS corpusWendy Anderson | pp. 137–152
- II. Using corpora to analyse written discourse: A diachronic perspective
- i. Diachronic approaches to historical corpora
- 9. Variation in the language of London newspapers: January 1701Udo Fries | pp. 157–172
- 10. From letters to guidebooks: Ruskin’s Mornings in FlorenceGabriella Del Lungo Camiciotti | pp. 173–184
- 11. Justificatory arguments in writing on art: Toulmin’s model tested on a small corpus of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century exhibition reviewsPaul Tucker | pp. 185–202
- 12. Analysing discourse in research genre: The case of biostatisticsChiara Prosperi Porta | pp. 203–220
- ii. Diachronic methodologies and language change
- 13. The difference a word can show: A diachronic corpus-based study of the demonstrative ‘this’ in tourism research article abstractsŠarolta Godnič Vičič | pp. 223–238
- 14. Changing trends in Italian newspaper language: A diachronic, corpus-based studyStefania Spina | pp. 239–254
- 15. A corpus-based analysis of some time-related aspects of contemporary JapaneseTadaharu Tanomura | pp. 255–268
- 16. It’s always the same old news! A diachronic analysis of shifting newspaper language style, 1993–2005Caroline Clark | pp. 269–282
- Name index | pp. 283–286
- Subject index | pp. 287–290
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