Grammatical Complexity in Academic English: Linguistic Change in WritingGrammatical Complexity in Academic English uses corpus-based analyses to challenge a number of dominant stereotypes and assumptions within linguistics. Biber and Gray tackle the nature of grammatical complexity, demonstrating that embedded phrasal structures are as important as embedded dependent clauses. The authors also overturn ingrained assumptions about linguistic change, showing that grammatical change occurs in writing as well as speech. This work establishes that academic writing is structurally compressed (rather than elaborated); that it is often not explicit in the expression of meaning; and that scientific academic writing has been the locus of some of the most important grammatical changes in English over the past 200 years (rather than being conservative and resistant to change). Supported throughout with textual evidence, this work is essential reading for discourse analysts, sociolinguists, and applied linguists, as well as descriptive linguists and historical linguists. |
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Inhalt
Using corpora to analyze grammatical change | 43 |
A synchronic | 67 |
of academic research writing | 87 |
The historical evolution of phrasal discourse styles | 125 |
The functional extension of phrasal grammatical features | 167 |
economy of expression | 207 |
The loss of explicitness in academic research writing | 218 |
Conclusion | 244 |
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Descriptive statistics for nine linguistic features | 272 |
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Grammatical Complexity in Academic English: Linguistic Change in Writing Douglas Biber,Bethany Gray Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2016 |
Grammatical Complexity in Academic English: Linguistic Change in Writing Douglas Biber,Bethany Gray Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2019 |
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academic prose academic research writing academic sub-registers academic texts academic writing adverbial clauses analyses appositive noun phrases attributive adjectives Biber Chapter clausal common in academic complement clauses contrast conversation corpora corpus decrease Descriptive statistics discourse style elaborated embedded English especially example explicit fiction Figure finite dependent clauses frequent functioning as noun grammatical change grammatical characteristics grammatical complexity grammatical features head noun historical change historical linguists historical periods humanities increased inexplicit lexical linguistic features meaning relationships mitosis newspaper prose nineteenth century nominal pre-modifiers non-finite non-finite clauses noun modifiers occur of-genitives of-phrases passive voice patterns phosphorylation phrasal modifiers phrases as noun post-modifiers pre-modifying nouns prepositional phrases pronouns relative clauses reportage science articles science research articles science research writing science writing shows social science specialist science research specific spoken and written stereotypes T-unit Table Text Sample trend twentieth century variation versus vimentin words written academic written registers
