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- 题名/责任者:
- Grammatical complexity in academic English : linguistic change in writing / Douglas Biber (Northern Arizona University), Bethany Gray (Iowa State University).
- 出版发行项:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
- ISBN:
- 9781107009264 (hardback)
- ISBN:
- 110700926X
- 载体形态项:
- xiv, 277 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- 丛编统一题名:
- Studies in English language.
- 个人责任者:
- Biber, Douglas, author.
- 附加个人名称:
- Gray, Bethany, author.
- 论题主题:
- English language-Grammar.
- 论题主题:
- Complexity (Linguistics)
- 论题主题:
- Academic writing-Research.
- 论题主题:
- Linguistic change.
- 中图法分类号:
- H314
- 书目附注:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-271) and index.
- 摘要附注:
- "Grammatical Complexity in Academic English uses corpus-based analyses to challenge a number of dominant stereotypes and assumptions within linguistics. Biber and Gray tackle the nature of grammatical complexity, demonstrating that embedded phrasal structures are as important as embedded dependent clauses. The authors also overturn ingrained assumptions about linguistic change, showing that grammatical change occurs in writing as well as speech. This work establishes that academic writing is structurally compressed (rather than elaborated); that it is often not explicit in the expression of meaning; and that scientific academic writing has been the locus of some of the most important grammatical changes in English over the past 200 years (rather than being conservative and resistant to change). Supported throughout with textual evidence, this work is essential reading for discourse analysts, sociolinguists, applied linguists, as well as descriptive linguists and historical linguists"--
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