Variation in Time and Space: Observing the World through Corpora: 20 (Diskursmuster / Discourse Patterns, 20) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3110601923 ISBN 13: 9783110601923

Publisher: De Gruyter, 2020

Synopsis

Variation in Time and Space: Observing the World through Corpora is a collection of articles that address the theme of linguistic variation in English in its broadest sense. Current research in English language presented in the book explores a fascinating number of topics, whose unifying element is the corpus linguistic methodology. Part I of this volume, Meaning in Time and Space, introduces the two dimensions of variation – time and space – relating them to the negotiation of meaning in discourse and questions of intertextuality. Part II, Variation in Time, approaches the English language from a diachronic point of view; the time periods covered vary considerably, ranging from 16^th century up to present-day; so do the genres explored. Part III, Variation in Space, focuses on global varieties of English and includes a contrastive point of view. The range of topics is again broad – from specific lexico-grammatical structures to the variation in academic English, combining the regional and genre dimensions of variation. This is a timely volume that shows the breadth and depth in current corpus-based research of English.

About this title

About the Authors

Anna Čermáková, Cambridge University, UK, and Charles University; Markéta Malá, Charles University Prague, Czechia.

Anna Čermáková, Universität Cambridge, UK, und Karls-Universität Prag; Markéta Malá, Karls-Universität Prag, Tschechien.

Edition details

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3110601923
• ISBN 13: 9783110601923
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 412
• Editor: Malá