Book Details
This book describes the most important kinds of texts in English and introduces the methodological techniques used to analyse them. Three analytical approaches are introduced and compared, describing a wide range of texts from the perspectives of register, genre and style. The primary focus of the book is on the analysis of registers. Part 1 introduces an analytical framework for studying registers, genre conventions, and styles. Part 2 provides detailed descriptions of particular text varieties in English, including spoken interpersonal varieties (conversation, university office hours, service encounters), written varieties (newspapers, academic prose, fiction), and emerging electronic varieties (e-mail, internet forums, text messages). Finally, Part 3 introduces advanced analytical approaches using corpora, and discusses theoretical concerns, such as the place of register studies in linguistics, and practical applications of register analysis. Each chapter ends with three types of activities: reflection and review activities, analysis activities, and larger project ideas.
Features activities with texts to allow readers to apply and practise methods of analysis discussed Presents both basic and sophisticated analytical techniques (including those based on computational analyses of corpora) to give reader a full picture of methods of analysis Includes the use of electronic texts for analysis which provides ideas for studying new forms of communication
- Binding Paperback
- Author/s Biber, Douglas / Conrad, Susan
- ISBN13 9780521677899
- ISBN10 0521677890
- Pages 344
- Published 2009
- Language English
Register, Genre and Style
- Author Douglas Biber , Susan Conrad
- Publisher CAMBRIDGE U.P
- ISBN 9780521677899
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