Using corpora to explore linguistic variation (J. Benjamins, 2002)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Using Corpora to Explore Linguistic Variation; Editorial page; Title page; LCC page; Table of contents; Introduction; Part I Exploring variation in the use of linguistic features; Chapter 1 Cross-disciplinary comparisons of hedging; Chapter 2 Would as a hedging device in an Irish context; Chapter 3 Good listenership made plain; Chapter 4 Variation in the distribution of modal verbs in the British National Corpus; Chapter 5 Strong modality and negation in Russian; Chapter 6 Formulaic language in English academic writing; Chapter 7 Lexical bundles in Freshman composition
Using Corpora to Explore Linguistic Variation illustrates the ways in which linguistic variation can be explored through corpus-based investigation. Two major kinds of research questions are considered: variation in the use of a particular linguistic feature, and variation across dialects or registers. Part 1: "Exploring variation in the use of linguistic features" focuses on the study of specific words, expressions, or grammatical constructions, to study variation in the use of a particular linguistic feature. Part 2: "Exploring dialect and register variation" describes salient characteristic