In:Using Corpora to Explore Linguistic Variation
Edited by Randi Reppen, Susan Fitzmaurice and Douglas Biber
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics 9] 2002
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 29 November 2002
https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.9.toc
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Table of contents
Introductionvii
Part I: Exploring variation in the use of linguistic features
1. Cross-disciplinary comparisons of hedging: Some findings from the Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English
2. Would as a hedging device in an Irish context: An intra-varietal comparison of institutionalised spoken interaction
3. Good listenership made plain: British and American non-minimal response tokens in everyday conversation
4. Variation in the distribution of modal verbs in the British National Corpus
5. Strong modality and negation in Russian
6. Formulaic language in English academic writing: A corpus-based study of the formal and functional variation of a lexical phrase in different academic disciplines
7. Lexical bundles in Freshman composition
8. Pseudo-Titles in the press genre of various components of the International Corpus of English
9. Pattern grammar, language teaching, and linguistic variation: Applications of a corpus-driven grammar
Part II: Exploring dialect or register variation
10. Syntactic features of Indian English: An examination of written Indian English
11. Variation in academic lectures: Interactivity and level of instruction
Part III: Exploring historical variation
12. The textual resolution of structural ambiguity in eighteenth-century English: A corpus linguistic study of patterns of negation
13. Investigating register variation in nineteenth-century English: A multi-dimensional comparison
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