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Contrastive Register Variation : A Quantitative Approach to the Comparison of English and German / Stella Neumann.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; 251Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2013]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (361 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783110238587
  • 9783110238594
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of tables and figures -- List of abbreviations -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part 1: Theoretical foundations -- Chapter 2. State of the art -- Chapter 3. On empirical methods in linguistics -- Chapter 4. Indicators of register classification -- Part 2: Empirical analysis -- Chapter 5. Research design -- Chapter 6. English intralingual register variation -- Chapter 7. German intralingual register variation -- Chapter 8. Cross-linguistic register comparison -- Chapter 9. Variation between originals and translations -- Chapter 10. Insights on register variation -- Chapter 11. Conclusions -- References -- Appendix -- Index
Summary: The book provides the first comparison of usage preferences across registers in the language pair English-German. Due to the innovative quantitative approach and broad coverage, the volume is an excellent resource for scholars working in contrastive linguistics and translation studies as well as for corpus linguists.
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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of tables and figures -- List of abbreviations -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part 1: Theoretical foundations -- Chapter 2. State of the art -- Chapter 3. On empirical methods in linguistics -- Chapter 4. Indicators of register classification -- Part 2: Empirical analysis -- Chapter 5. Research design -- Chapter 6. English intralingual register variation -- Chapter 7. German intralingual register variation -- Chapter 8. Cross-linguistic register comparison -- Chapter 9. Variation between originals and translations -- Chapter 10. Insights on register variation -- Chapter 11. Conclusions -- References -- Appendix -- Index

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The book provides the first comparison of usage preferences across registers in the language pair English-German. Due to the innovative quantitative approach and broad coverage, the volume is an excellent resource for scholars working in contrastive linguistics and translation studies as well as for corpus linguists.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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