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Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] #70
Syntactic Variation and Genre
This volume explores the interplay of syntactic variation and genre. How do genres emerge and what is the role of syntax in constituting them? Why do certain constructions appear in certain types of text? The articles in this book include both overviews of theoretical approaches to the concept of genre in linguistics and data-based analyses of specific syntactic phenomena in English, German, and Romance.
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364 pages, Paperback
First published December 12, 2010
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June 22, 2019
I particularly enjoy the chapters by Imo, Günthner, Giltrow, etc. which account for both form and function in a way that seems natural from my usage-based/cognitive linguistics background, and which fits well with CxG. If you like the approach to discourse taken by Östman (e.g. 1997, 2005), Antonopoulou & Nikiforidou (2011), Hoffmann & Bergs (2018) and so on then you will probably get a lot out of this book. That is the direction I came to this book from.
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