Contrastive Register Variation: A Quantitative Approach to the Comparison of English and German (Trends in Linguistics: Studies and Monographs)

Stella Neumann

ISBN 10: 3110238586 / ISBN 13: 9783110238587

Published by Walter de Gruyter, 2013

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Hardcover, xx + 361 pages, NOT ex-library. Faint brown staining on one leaf outside the text area, faint handling marks on outer page edges. Else little wear, book is clean and bright with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Issued without a dust jacket. -- Contents: Chapter 1 Introduction 1 The concept of variation in linguistics 2 Goal of the study 3 Methodology for the investigation of variation 4 Organisation of the study; Part 1: Theoretical foundations -- Chapter 2 State of the art 1 Texts: a view on text linguistics 2 Register: situating texts in the language system 3 Variation: comparing linguistic systems 3.1 Contrastive linguistics 3.2 Lexico-grammatical variation across languages 3.3 Register variation across languages 4 Translation: influences from language mediation 4.1 Register analysis in translation studies; 4.2 Translation properties 5 Envoi; Chapter 3 On empirical methods in linguistics 1 Conceptual and methodological links between linguistics and social sciences 2 Empirical methods 2.1 Qualitative and quantitative approaches 2.2 From abstract concepts to observable features 3 Quality criteria for empirical research 4 Limits of cross-linguistic empirical research 5 Summary; Chapter 4 Indicators of register classification 1 Field of discourse 1.1 Experiential domain 1.2 Goal orientation 2 Tenor of discourse 2.1 Agentive roles 2.2 Social role relationship 2.3 Social distance 2.4 Appraisal 3 Mode of discourse 3.1 Language role 3.2 Channel 3.3 Medium 4 Summary; Part 2: Empirical analysis -- Chapter 5 Research design 1 The corpus 1.1 Design 1.2 Enrichment 2 Exploiting the corpus 2.1 Query tools 2.2 Statistics 3 Corpus contrasts 3.1 Overview of the contrasts 3.2 Relative register values 4 Hypotheses 4.1 Language-internal variation in originals 4.2 Cross-linguistic variation in originals 4.3 Variation between originals and translations 5 Summary; Chapter 6 English intralingual register variation 1 Field of discourse 1.1 Experiential domain 1.2 Goal orientation 2 Tenor of discourse 2.1 Social role relationship 2.2 Social distance 3 Mode of discourse 3.1 Language role 3.2 Medium 4 Summary; Chapter 7 German intralingual register variation 1 Field of discourse 1.1 Experiential domain 1.2 Goal orientation 2 Tenor of discourse 2.1 Social role relationship 2.2 Social distance 3 Mode of discourse 3.1 Language role 3.2 Medium 4 Summary; Chapter 8 Cross-linguistic register comparison 1 Field of discourse 1.1 Experiential domain 1.2 Goal orientation 2 Tenor of discourse 2.1 Social role relationship 2.2 Social distance 3 Mode of discourse 3.1 Language role 3.2 Medium 4 Summary; Chapter 9 Variation between originals and translations 1 Field of discourse 1.1 Experiential domain 1.2 Goal orientation 2 Tenor of discourse 2.1 Social role relationship 2.2 Social distance 3 Mode of discourse 3.1 Language role 3.2 Medium 4 Summary; Chapter 10 Insights on register variation 1 Variation in the CroCo registers 1.1 Variation in the English registers 1.2 Variation in the German registers 1.3 Cross-linguistic variation 1.4 Variation between the originals and translations 2 The hypotheses revisited 3 Towards a model of register variation; Chapter 11 Conclusions 1 Summary of the results 2 Evaluation of the methodology 3 Outlook; References; Appendix: Linguistic features in alphabetic order; Index.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Contrastive Register Variation: A Quantitative Approach to the Comparison of English and German (Trends in Linguistics: Studies and Monographs)
• Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3110238586
• ISBN 13: 9783110238587
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

The book provides the first comparison of usage preferences across registers in the language pair English-German. Due to the innovative quantitative approach and broad coverage, the volume is an excellent resource for scholars working in contrastive linguistics and translation studies as well as for corpus linguists.

About the Author

Stella Neumann, RWTH Aachen University, Germany.