Genre- and Register-related Discourse Features in Contrast
Editors
This volume contributes to filling a gap in corpus-based research by investigating the ways in which linguistic features vary across genres/registers cross-linguistically. It brings together insightful chapters by leading scholars in the field, fruitfully exploiting genre- or register-controlled multilingual parallel and comparable corpora to: (i) problematize cross-register variation in a multilingual perspective, (ii) address methodological and theoretical issues raised by register-oriented contrastive and translation studies, (iii) investigate the cross-linguistic and cross-genre variation of specific linguistic features, such as lexical bundles, sentence-initial adverbials and tag questions, (iv) identify cross-cultural and cross-linguistic dissimilarities in expressing a functional category, viz. Appraisal, in the field of opinion mining. The book offers new cutting-edge research that should be of interest to specialists in contrastive linguistics, translation studies and cross-cultural studies. Originally published as a special issue of Languages in Contrast 14:1 (2014).
[Benjamins Current Topics, 87] 2016. v, 163 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 11 July 2016
Published online on 11 July 2016
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Articles
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IntroductionMarie-Aude Lefer and Svetlana Vogeleer | pp. 1–5
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Using multi-dimensional analysis to explore cross-linguistic universals of register variationDouglas Biber | pp. 7–34
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Cross-linguistic register studies: Theoretical and methodological considerationsStella Neumann | pp. 35–57
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A lexical bundle approach to comparing languages: Stems in English and FrenchSylviane Granger | pp. 59–72
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Discourse-structuring functions of initial adverbials in English and Norwegian news and fictionHilde Hasselgård | pp. 73–92
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Canonical tag questions in English, Spanish and Portuguese: A discourse-functional studyMaría de los Ángeles Gómez González | pp. 93–126
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Loving and hating the movies in English, German and SpanishMaite Taboada, Marta Carretero and Jennifer Hinnell | pp. 127–161
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Index | pp. 161–163
Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFG: Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009030: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Pragmatics