Sentence Complexity in Academic Written English | A Syntactic Study with a Diachronic Perspective (1904 - 2005)

Marcela Malá

ISBN 10: 3844333657 / ISBN 13: 9783844333657

Published by LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2011

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Sentence Complexity in Academic Written English | A Syntactic Study with a Diachronic Perspective (1904 - 2005) | Marcela Malá | Taschenbuch | 220 S. | Englisch | 2011 | LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing | EAN 9783844333657 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu GmbH & Co. KG, Lengericher Landstr. 19, 49078 Osnabrück, mail[at]preigu[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sentence Complexity in Academic Written English | A Syntactic Study with a Diachronic Perspective (1904 - 2005)
• Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3844333657
• ISBN 13: 9783844333657
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 220W x 150H x 14D millimeters 220 millimeters width by 150 millimeters height by 14 millimeters depth
• Weight: 346 grams
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Synopsis

This book is a contribution to research into the analysis of academic English. It focuses on concrete evidence of change in the syntactic structure of sentences and sentence complexity over a period of about a century. It analyses academic texts from the fields of psychology and economics. Unlike most current research into academic English which focuses on selective syntactic issues, this book offers analyses of stretches of continuous running texts and categorises every single explicitly expressed finite and non-finite predication which occurs in them. The detailed examination of these texts and especially the diachronic perspective which this study adopts reveal and pinpoint some discernible trends in the modes of expression of current academic English, which may remain unnoticed if the research focuses merely on selective issues. This book is intended mainly for professionals and students of linguistics, but it should also be of interest to anyone concerned with academic English, language change and corpus linguistics.

About the Author

Marcela Malá, MA, PhD: Studied TEFL at the University of Reading, U.K. and English Philology at Masaryk University in Brno and Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. Senior Lecturer and Head of the English Department at the Technical University of Liberec, Czech Republic.