TY - BOOK AU - Neumann,Stella TI - Contrastive Register Variation: A Quantitative Approach to the Comparison of English and German T2 - Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , SN - 9783110238587 PY - 2013///] CY - Berlin, Boston PB - De Gruyter Mouton KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General KW - bisacsh N1 - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110238594 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110238594 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110238594/original ER -