Acknowledgements

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgements v
3. Table of contents vii
4. Introduction: Current trends in register research 1
5. Section I: Specialised registers
6. Towards a user-based taxonomy of web registers 19
7. The interrelationship of register and genre in medical discourse 43
8. Aviation English: Two distinct specialised registers? 67
9. ‘Now niggas talk a lotta Bad Boy shit’: The register hip-hop from a corpus-linguistic perspective 87
10. The register of English crossword puzzles: Studies in intertextuality 111
11. Section II: Cross-register comparison
12. Punctuation as an indication of register: Comics and academic texts 139
13. Linking up register and cognitive perspectives: Parenthetical constructions in academic prose and experimentalist poetry 169
14. Cohesive devices across registers and varieties: The role of medium in English 195
15. Section III: Regional, contrastive and diachronic register variation
16. Metaphors in New English academic writing 223
17. The influence of register on noun phrase complexity in varieties of English 251
18. Real-time online text commentaries: A cross-cultural perspective 271
19. Word order is in order here: A diachronic register analysis of syntactic markedness in English 307
20. Index 337