Register Variation Online

Register Variation Online

by Jesse Egbert and Douglas Biber
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 31/08/2018

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While other books focus on special internet registers, like tweets or texting, no previous study describes the full range of everyday registers found on the searchable web. These are the documents that readers encounter every time they do a Google search, from registers like news reports, product reviews, travel blogs, discussion forums, FAQs, etc. Based on analysis of a large, near-random corpus of web documents, this monograph provides comprehensive situational, lexical, and grammatical descriptions of those registers. Beginning with a coding of each document in the corpus, the description identifies the registers that are especially common on the searchable web versus those that are less commonly found. Multi-dimensional analysis is used to describe the overall patterns of linguistic variation among web registers, while the second half of the book provides an in-depth description of each individual register, including analyses of situational contexts and communicative purposes, together with the typical lexical and grammatical characteristics associated with those contexts.

ISBN:
9781108682701
9781108682701
Category:
Sociolinguistics
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
31-08-2018
Language:
English
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press

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