Introduction

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. I Meaning in time and space
5. Digital discourse and its discontents 9
6. Text, intertext and meaning 37
7. Hic sunt dracones 65
8. II Variation in time
9. Presenting knowledge of the world 89
10. Interpreting the world of late modern English medical writing 113
11. A corpus-based analysis of grammarians’ references in 19^th-century British grammars 133
12. Construing justice 173
13. III Variation in space
14. Variation in the complementiser choice between if and whether 203
15. Using intensifier-adjective collocations to investigate mechanisms of change 231
16. There’s different types 257
17. Academic prose across countries 283
18. A corpus-based study of metadiscoursal boosters in applied linguistics dissertations written in Thailand and in the United States 321
19. Patterns and meanings of hedging verbs in English-medium research articles by Chinese and Western scholars 351
20. The EMI campus as site and source for a multimodal corpus 377
21. Index 403