<B>This book has been shortlisted for an ESSE book award 2012 in English Language and Linguistics, Junior Scholars</B>.<BR> This volume approaches the analysis of variation in English from diachronic, diatopic, and contrastive/comparative perspectives. The individual case studies, all closely interr
New Trends and Methodologies in Applied English Language Research III: Synchronic and Diachronic Studies on Discourse, Lexis and Grammar Processing
โ Scribed by Sofรญa Bemposta-Rivas, Carla Bouzada-Jabois, Yolanda Fernรกndez-Pena, Tamara Bouso, Yolanda J. Calvo-Benzies, Ivรกn Tamaredo
- Publisher
- Peter Lang
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 300
- Series
- Linguistic Insights 209
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Synopsis
This volume includes eleven papers pertaining to different areas of linguistics and organised into three sections. Part I contains diachronic studies which cover data from Middle English to Present-Day English and which explore phenomena such as the status of extender tags, the distribution of free adjuncts, post-auxiliary ellipsis, and the use of โephemeralโ concessive adverbial subordinators. Part II comprises studies on grammar and language processing dealing with topics such as the interaction between syntactic and structural complexity and verbal agreement with collective subjects, the influence of distributivity and concreteness on verbal agreement, the interaction of complexity and efficiency in pronoun omission in Indian English and Singapore English, and the methods and approaches used for grammar teaching in modern EFL/ESL textbooks. Finally, Part III revolves around lexis, discourse and pragmatics, with papers that discuss the development of the discoursal representation of social actors in Argentinian newspapers after the military dictatorship, the construction of womenโs gender identity through positive and negative emotions in womenโs magazines, and spelling-to-sound correspondence on Twitter.
โฆ Subjects
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