Genre- and Register-related Discourse Features in Contrast
- Editor(s): Marie-Aude Lefer 1 and Svetlana Vogeleer 2
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View Affiliations Hide AffiliationsAffiliations:1 Université Saint-Louis - Bruxelles, Université catholique de Louvain2 Université catholique de Louvain, Université Saint-Louis - Bruxelles
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- Publication Date July 2016
- e-Book ISBN: 9789027266804
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/bct.87
This volume contributes to filling a gap in corpus-based research by investigating the ways in which linguistic features vary across genres/registers cross-linguistically. It brings together insightful chapters by leading scholars in the field, fruitfully exploiting genre- or register-controlled multilingual parallel and comparable corpora to: (i) problematize cross-register variation in a multilingual perspective, (ii) address methodological and theoretical issues raised by register-oriented contrastive and translation studies, (iii) investigate the cross-linguistic and cross-genre variation of specific linguistic features, such as lexical bundles, sentence-initial adverbials and tag questions, (iv) identify cross-cultural and cross-linguistic dissimilarities in expressing a functional category, viz. Appraisal, in the field of opinion mining. The book offers new cutting-edge research that should be of interest to specialists in contrastive linguistics, translation studies and cross-cultural studies. Originally published as a special issue of Languages in Contrast 14:1 (2014).
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