Variational Text Linguistics : Revisiting Register in English / Christina Sanchez-Stockhammer, Christoph Schubert.

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Table of contents -- Introduction: Current trends in register research -- Section I: Specialised registers -- Towards a user-based taxonomy of web registers -- The interrelationship of register and genre in medical discourse -- Aviation English: Two distinct specialised registers? -- ‘Now niggas talk a lotta Bad Boy shit’: The register hip-hop from a corpus-linguistic perspective -- The register of English crossword puzzles: Studies in intertextuality -- Section II: Cross-register comparison -- Punctuation as an indication of register: Comics and academic texts -- Linking up register and cognitive perspectives: Parenthetical constructions in academic prose and experimentalist poetry -- Cohesive devices across registers and varieties: The role of medium in English -- Section III: Regional, contrastive and diachronic register variation -- Metaphors in New English academic writing -- The influence of register on noun phrase complexity in varieties of English -- Real-time online text commentaries: A cross-cultural perspective -- Word order is in order here: A diachronic register analysis of syntactic markedness in English -- Index

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In English.

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