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ISBN 10: 1108568238
ISBN 13: 9781108568234
Author: Douglas Biber, Susan Conrad
A fully updated and expanded second edition of this flagship work, which introduces methodological techniques to carry out analyses of text varieties, and provides descriptions of the most important text varieties in English. Part I introduces an analytical framework for studying registers, genre conventions, and styles, while Part II provides more detailed corpus-based descriptions of text varieties in English, including spoken interpersonal varieties, general and professional written varieties and emerging electronic varieties. Part III introduces more advanced analytical approaches and deals with larger theoretical concerns, such as the relationship between register studies and other sub-disciplines of linguistics, and practical applications of register analysis. A new chapter on EAP and ESP has been added, with new sections on the important differences between academic writing in the humanities and sciences, and a case study on engineering reports as an ESP register and genre. Coverage of new electronic registers has been updated, and a new analysis of hybrid registers has been added.
Register Genre and Style 2nd Table of contents:
1 Registers, Genres, and Styles: Fundamental Varieties of Language
1.1 Text Varieties in Your Daily Life
1.1.1 Why Is It Important to Analyze Text Varieties?
1.2 Texts, Varieties, Registers, and Dialects
1.3 Registers and Register Analysis: An Overview
1.3.1 Register Analysis: Situation, Linguistic Features, Functions
1.3.2 More Details about Registers and Register Analysis
1.3.2.1 The Situational Characteristics of Registers are More Basic Than the Linguistic Features
1.3.2.2 Registers Differ in Their Quantitative Distributions of Pervasive Linguistic Features, Not t
1.3.2.3 Register Analysis Requires Both Situational and Linguistic Analysis, Often Applied Cyclicall
1.3.2.4 Register Variation Has a Functional Basis
1.3.2.5 Registers Can Be Identified on Different Levels of Specificity
1.3.2.6 Register Analyses Must Be Based on a Representative Sample of Texts
1.3.3 Registers versus Dialects
1.3.4 Comparing Register Variation and Dialect Variation
1.4 Different Perspectives on Text Varieties: Register, Genre, Style
1.4.1 Register, Genre, and Style Perspectives in This Book
1.4.2 Genre and Style in Literary Studies
1.4.3 Register, Genre, and Style in Previous Research
1.5 Register/Genre Variation As a Linguistic Universal
1.6 Overview of the Book
Chapter 1 Activities
Reflection and Review
Notes
Part I Analytical Framework
2 Describing the Situational Characteristics of Registers and Genres
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Issues in the Identification of Registers and Genres
2.2.1 General and Specialized Registers and Genres
2.2.2 Culturally Recognized Register/Genre Distinctions
2.3 A Framework for Situational Analysis
2.3.1 Methods for Describing the Situational Characteristics of a Register
2.3.1.1 Your Experience and Observation
2.3.1.2 Expert Informants
2.3.1.3 Previous Research
2.3.1.4 Analysis of Texts from the Register
2.3.2 The Framework for Analyzing Situational Characteristics
2.3.2.1 Participants
2.3.2.2 Relations among Participants
2.3.2.3 Channel
2.3.2.4 Processing Circumstances
2.3.2.5 Setting
2.3.2.6 Communicative Purpose
2.3.2.7 Topic
2.4 Applying the Situational Analysis Framework in a Register Study
Chapter 2 Activities
Reflection and Review
Analysis Practice
Project Ideas
3 Analyzing Linguistic Features and Their Functions
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Fundamental Issues for the Linguistic Analysis of Registers
3.2.1 The Need for a Comparative Approach
3.2.2 Register Features, Register Markers, Genre Markers, Style Features
3.2.3 The Need for Quantitative Analysis
3.2.4 The Need for a Representative Sample
3.3 Conducting Quantitative Linguistic Analyses
3.3.1 Classifying Linguistic Features in a Principled and Consistent Way
3.3.2 Computing Rates of Occurrence (Frequency Counts)
3.4 Deciding on the Linguistic Features to Investigate
3.5 Functional Interpretations
3.6 Textual Conventions: The Genre Perspective
3.7 Pervasive Linguistic Features That Are Not Directly Functional: The Style Perspective
3.8 Embedded Registers and Genres
3.9 A Short Introduction to Corpus Linguistics
3.10 Small-Scale versus Large-Scale Register Analyses
Chapter 3 Activities
Reflection and Review
Analysis Practice
Project Ideas
Notes
Part II Detailed Descriptions of Registers, Genres, and Styles
4 Interpersonal Spoken Registers
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Conversation
4.2.1 Situational Characteristics of Conversation
4.2.2 Linguistic Characteristics of Conversation
4.2.3 Quantitative Linguistic Differences between Conversation and Other Registers
4.3 University Office Hours
4.4 Service Encounters
4.5 Conclusion
Chapter 4 Activities
Reflection and Review
Analysis Practice
Project Ideas
5 Written Registers, Genres, and Styles
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Situational Characteristics of News Reports and Academic Prose
5.3 Linguistic Features in News Reports and Academic Prose
5.3.1 Writing versus Conversation
5.3.2 Comparison of News Reports and Academic Prose
5.4 Variation within the General Registers
5.4.1 News Reports and News Editorials
5.4.2 Research Articles versus Textbooks
5.5 Variation in Fiction Due to Style
5.6 Conclusion
Chapter 5 Activities
Reflection and Review
Analysis Practice
Project Ideas
Notes
6 Academic and Professional Written Registers
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Disciplinary Registers
6.3 Variation among Student Writing Registers within the University
6.4 Even More Specific Sub-Registers: Variation across the Sections of Academic Research Articles
6.5 Professional Written Registers in Academia and the Workplace
6.5.1 Writing in Civil Engineering
6.5.2 Journal Articles and Reports in Civil Engineering
6.6 A Genre Perspective on Professional and Student Writing
6.7 Chapter Summary
Chapter 6 Activities
Reflection and Review
Analysis Practice
Project Ideas
Notes
7 Registers and Genres in Interpersonal Electronic Communication
7.1 Introduction: New Technology and New Registers
7.2 Individual Email Messages
7.2.1 Situational Characteristics of Personal Email Messages
7.2.2 Linguistic Characteristics of Personal Email Messages
7.2.3 Variation in Addressee and Purpose in Email Messages
7.2.4 Genre Markers in Email Messages
7.3 Internet Forum Posts
7.3.1 Situational Characteristics of Forum Posts
7.3.2 Linguistic Features of Forum Posts
7.3.3 A Closer Look at the Use of Personal Pronouns by Users at Different Levels
7.4. Text Messages
7.4.1 Situational Characteristics of Text Messages
7.4.1.1 Purpose 1: Social Organizing
7.4.1.2 Purpose 2: Staying Connected While on the Move
7.4.1.3 Purpose 3: Information Sharing
7.4.1.4 Purpose 4: Relationship Maintenance
7.4.1.5 Purpose 5: Business Prompts
7.4.2 Linguistic Features of Text Messages
7.5 A Style Study of Tweets
7.6 Chapter Summary
Chapter 7 Activities
Reflection and Review
Analysis Practice
Project Ideas
Notes
8 Historical Evolution of Registers, Genres, and Styles
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Historical Change in the Fictional Novel
8.2.1 A Genre Perspective on The Historical Novel
8.2.2 Style Characteristics of Particular Eighteenth- and Twentieth-Century Novels
8.2.3 General Stylistic Differences between Eighteenth-Century and Modern Novels
8.2.4 Social Contexts of Eighteenth-Century and Modern Novels
8.3 Historical Change in the Scientific Research Article
8.3.1 Historical Change in Research Articles: A Genre Perspective
8.3.2 Historical Change in Research Articles: A Register Perspective
8.3.3 Genre/Register Change, or Change to a New Genre/Register?
8.4 Historical Change in the Linguistic Patterns of Register Variation
8.4.1 Historical Register Change in the Complexity of Noun Phrases
8.4.2 Historical Register Change in the Linguistic Expression of Stance
Chapter 8 Activities
Reflection and Review
Analysis Practice
Project Ideas
Part III Larger Theoretical Issues
9 Multi-Dimensional Patterns of Register Variation
9.1 Comparing Multiple Registers
9.1.1 Generalizable Descriptions of Registers
9.1.2 Which Linguistic Features to Consider?
9.1.3 Comparing the Distribution of Individual Linguistic Features across Multiple Registers
9.2 Introduction to Multi-Dimensional Analysis
9.2.1 Conceptual Introduction to the Multi-Dimensional Approach to Register Variation
9.2.2 Overview of Methodology in the Multi-Dimensional Approach
9.3 MD Analysis of University Spoken and Written Registers
9.3.1 Dimension 1: Oral versus Literate Discourse
9.3.2 Dimension 2: Procedural versus Content-Focused Discourse
9.3.3 Dimension 3: Reconstructed Account of Events
9.3.4 Dimension 4: Teacher-Centered Stance
9.3.5 Differences among Academic Disciplines
9.4 Summary and Conclusion
Chapter 9 Activities
Reflection and Review
Analysis Practice
Project Ideas
Notes
10 Register Studies in Context
10.1 Register Studies in the Broader Context of Linguistics
10.2 Speech and Writing
10.3 Universal Parameters of Register Variation
10.4 Register Variation and Sociolinguistics
10.5 Register Studies in the Broader Context of the World
Chapter 10 Activities
Reflection and Review
Project Ideas
Notes
Appendix A Annotations of Major Register and Genre Studies
Appendix B Activity Texts
References
Index
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