Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Introduction 1
4. Part 1: Genre: Form, constitution, and change
5. Genre as difference: The sociality of linguistic variation 29
6. Variation across texts and discourses: Theoretical and methodological perspectives on text type and genre 53
7. A new genre for a specialized community: The rise of the experimental essay 85
8. Do some genres or text types become more complex than others? 111
9. Mein Problem ist/mein Thema ist (‘My problem is/my topic is’): How syntactic patterns and genres interact 141
10. Thank you for thinking we could: Use and function of interpersonal pronouns in corporate web logs 167
11. Part 2: Syntactic variation based on genre
12. Grammatical constructions and communicative genres 195
13. Genre effects in the replacement of reflexives by particles 219
14. Clause linkage techniques as a symptom of discourse traditions: Methodological issues and evidence from Romance languages 247
15. Syntactic constructions as a means of spatial representation in fictional prose 277
16. Agreement in educated Jamaican English: A corpus-based study of spoken usage in ICE-Jamaica 305
17. I know you guys hate forwards: Address pronouns in digital folklore 333
18. Backmatter 359