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Variation in English Worldwide
Registers and Global Varieties
Studies in English Language Series
Author: Bohmann Axel
Provides a comprehensive overview of how variation in English world-wide is structured and the factors that motivate this structure.
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Publication date: 11-2019
182 p. · 15.6x23.5 cm · Hardback
182 p. · 15.6x23.5 cm · Hardback
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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.
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.
Axel Bohmann is Assistant Professor of English Linguistics at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg.
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