Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction vii
4. Part I
5. 1. Cross-disciplinary comparisons of hedging 3
6. 2. Would as a hedging device in an Irish context 25
7. 3. Good listenership made plain 49
8. 4. Variation in the distribution of modal verbs in the British National Corpus 73
9. 5. Strong modality and negation in Russian 91
10. 6. Formulaic language in English academic writing 111
11. 7. Lexical bundles in Freshman composition 131
12. 8. Pseudo-Titles in the press genre of various components of the International Corpus of English 147
13. 9. Pattern grammar, language teaching, and linguistic variation 167
14. Part II
15. 10. Syntactic features of Indian English 187
16. 11. Variation in academic lectures 203
17. Part III
18. 12. The textual resolution of structural ambiguity in eighteenth-century English 227
19. 13. Investigating register variation in nineteenth-century English 249
20. Index 273