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Release : 1977
Genre : English philology
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Book Synopsis Studia Anglistica Upsaliensia by :
Download or read book Studia Anglistica Upsaliensia written by . This book was released on 1977. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Douglas Biber
Release : 1991-12-19
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Synopsis Variation Across Speech and Writing by : Douglas Biber
Download or read book Variation Across Speech and Writing written by Douglas Biber. This book was released on 1991-12-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Similarities and differences between speech and writing have been the subject of innumerable studies, but until now there has been no attempt to provide a unified linguistic analysis of the whole range of spoken and written registers in English. In this widely acclaimed empirical study, Douglas Biber uses computational techniques to analyse the linguistic characteristics of twenty three spoken and written genres, enabling identification of the basic, underlying dimensions of variation in English. In Variation Across Speech and Writing, six dimensions of variation are identified through a factor analysis, on the basis of linguistic co-occurence patterns. The resulting model of variation provides for the description of the distinctive linguistic characteristics of any spoken or written text andd emonstrates the ways in which the polarization of speech and writing has been misleading, and thus enables reconciliation of the contradictory conclusions reached in previous research.
Author : Paul Westney
Release : 2013-02-07
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Rating : 902/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Modals and Periphrastics in English by : Paul Westney
Download or read book Modals and Periphrastics in English written by Paul Westney. This book was released on 2013-02-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English has a number of periphrastic verbal forms that are semantically close to particular modal verbs and perform suppletive functions in relation to them (eg, have (got) to - must and be able to - can). After an exploration of the syntactic, semantic and phonological properties of potential periphrastic forms, this study investigates the nature of the relationship between the modals must, should, will and can and various semantically close periphrastics, using a spoken corpus of British English as the primary source of data. The focus is on the pragmatic interpretation of the items being compared, with some attention to their functions in discourse. These items are notoriously idiosyncratic both syntactically and semantically, but the general contrast claimed by some scholars between the maximally unmarked status of modals and the relatively marked status of periphrastics is amply confirmed, and this, together with the basic association of modality with alternative possible worlds, is shown to be reflected in a number of different ways, including the claimed 'objectivity' of periphrastics and the tendency of some to be associated with actuality. Level of formality is also found to be a significant, though not uniform, factor here.
Author : Jonathan Culpeper
Release : 2010-02-18
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Rating : 410/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Early Modern English Dialogues by : Jonathan Culpeper
Download or read book Early Modern English Dialogues written by Jonathan Culpeper. This book was released on 2010-02-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses speech-related genres in Early Modern English, providing ideas of what spoken interaction in earlier times might have been like.
Author : Sean Mcgrail
Release : 2014-06-11
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Ancient Boats in North-West Europe by : Sean Mcgrail
Download or read book Ancient Boats in North-West Europe written by Sean Mcgrail. This book was released on 2014-06-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At last a paperback edition of this standard work on marine archaeology. Séan McGrail's study received exceptional critical acclaim when it was first published in hardback in 1987 and it is now revised and published in paperback for the first time. Professor McGrail provides an authoritative survey of water transport across Northern Europe from the Late Palaeolithic to the later Middle Ages, using evidence of excavations, but also documentary sources, iconographic and ethnographic evidence. In the process he answers such key questions as How were these boats built? What sort of environment were they used in? What speeds could they achieve? and how were they navigated?
