Variation in Time and Space
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Anna Čermáková
About this book
Variation in Time and Space: Observing the World through Corpora is a collection of articles that address the theme of linguistic variation in English in its broadest sense. Current research in English language presented in the book explores a fascinating number of topics, whose unifying element is the corpus linguistic methodology. Part I of this volume, Meaning in Time and Space, introduces the two dimensions of variation – time and space – relating them to the negotiation of meaning in discourse and questions of intertextuality. Part II, Variation in Time, approaches the English language from a diachronic point of view; the time periods covered vary considerably, ranging from 16th century up to present-day; so do the genres explored. Part III, Variation in Space, focuses on global varieties of English and includes a contrastive point of view. The range of topics is again broad – from specific lexico-grammatical structures to the variation in academic English, combining the regional and genre dimensions of variation. This is a timely volume that shows the breadth and depth in current corpus-based research of English.
Author / Editor information
Anna Čermáková, Cambridge University, UK, and Charles University; Markéta Malá, Charles University Prague, Czechia.
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Contents
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Introduction
1 - I Meaning in time and space
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Digital discourse and its discontents
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Text, intertext and meaning
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Hic sunt dracones
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Presenting knowledge of the world
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Interpreting the world of late modern English medical writing
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A corpus-based analysis of grammarians’ references in 19th-century British grammars
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Construing justice
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Variation in the complementiser choice between if and whether
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Using intensifier-adjective collocations to investigate mechanisms of change
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There’s different types
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Academic prose across countries
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A corpus-based study of metadiscoursal boosters in applied linguistics dissertations written in Thailand and in the United States
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Patterns and meanings of hedging verbs in English-medium research articles by Chinese and Western scholars
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The EMI campus as site and source for a multimodal corpus
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