Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction ix
5. I. Corpus analysis of spoken dialogue
6. i. Variation and academic dialogue
7. 1. Speaking professionally in an L2 5
8. 2. Common features and variations in the use of personal pronouns in two types of monologic academic speech 33
9. ii. Dialogue in spoken and written business discourse
10. 3. Variation across spoken and written registers in internal corporate communication 47
11. 4. Using grammatical tagging to explore spoken/written variation in small specialized corpora 65
12. iii. Dialogic variation and language varieties
13. 5. Exploring regional variation in Italian question intonation 79
14. 6. Estonian emotional speech corpus 109
15. 7. Using movie corpora to explore spoken American English 123
16. 8. “But that’s dialect, isn’t it?” 137
17. II. Using corpora to analyse written discourse
18. i. Diachronic approaches to historical corpora
19. 9. Variation in the language of London newspapers 157
20. 10. From letters to guidebooks 173
21. 11. Justificatory arguments in writing on art 185
22. 12. Analysing discourse in research genre 203
23. ii. Diachronic methodologies and language change
24. 13. The difference a word can show 223
25. 14. Changing trends in Italian newspaper language 239
26. 15. A corpus-based analysis of some time-related aspects of contemporary Japanese 255
27. 16. It’s always the same old news! 269
28. Name index 283
29. Subject index 287