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Variation in English Worldwide

Variation in English Worldwide

Variation in English Worldwide

Registers and Global Varieties
Axel Bohmann , Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany
January 2020
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    World Englishes is one of the most active fields of present day linguistic research. This book provides a comprehensive overview of variation in English across the globe, by analysing a large corpus of texts from the English speaking world. The analysis draws on a larger number of individual texts and linguistic features than previous studies have done. It includes a systematic comparison of the influence of register and national variety on variation in English world-wide, and explores patterns of variation in both qualitative and quantitative terms. The results provide a testing ground for theoretical models, and highlight the importance of register in mediating linguistic differences across national varieties.

    • Explores the structure underlying variation in the global use of English
    • Develops ten fundamental dimensions of variation in quantitative terms and provides extensive qualitative analysis of each dimension
    • Demonstrates how to combine research in multi-dimensional corpus linguistics and the World Englishes framework on a large scale, in novel and highly productive ways

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    January 2020
    Hardback
    9781108485456
    182 pages
    235 × 156 × 18 mm
    0.49kg
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    Table of Contents

    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. The world of English: variation in geography and register
    • 3. Quantifying linguistic variation
    • 4. The space of variation in the present study
    • 5. General situational dimensions of variation
    • 6. Register-specific dimensions
    • 7. Dimensions with other patterns of distribution
    • 8. Discussion: feature space and geographic space
    • 9. Conclusion.
      Author
    • Axel Bohmann

      Axel Bohmann is Assistant Professor of English Linguistics at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg.

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