New Trends and Methodologies in Applied English Language Research: Diachronic, Diatopic and Contrastive Studies - Couverture souple

Tizón Couto, David; Pastor Gomez, Iria; Gomez Garcia, Lidia; Prado Alonso, José Carlos

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3034300468 ISBN 13 : 9783034300469

Editeur : Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2010

Synopsis

This book has been shortlisted for an ESSE book award 2012 in English Language and Linguistics, Junior Scholars. This volume approaches the analysis of variation in English from diachronic, diatopic, and contrastive/comparative perspectives. The individual case studies, all closely interrelated, are organized into three parts or sections. Part I (Diachronic Studies) applies a variationist methodology to the analysis of developments in the use of the courtesy marker please, adverbs in -ly, the s- genitive and a number of phrasal combinations with the verb get. It also examines Early Modern English regional dialect vocabulary. Part II (Diatopic Studies) is concerned with the analysis of several morphological and phonological features in different varieties of English, namely Standard English, Modern Scottish English, Galwegian English, and Black South-African English. Part III (Contrastive Studies) contains four chapters dealing with the contrastive analysis of a number of morphosyntactic features, such as the use of modifiers of adjectives by advanced learners of English, the acquisition and use of aspect by advanced EFL learners with different mother-tongue backgrounds, a comparison of the tempo-aspectual categories of English and Italian, and some of the problems encountered by researchers when compiling and analysing learner corpora of spoken language.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

The Editors : Carlos Prado-Alonso works as a full-time postdoctoral researcher at the Department of English of the University of Santiago de Compostela. Lidia Gómez-García is employed as a research assistant to the Spoken English Research Team at the University of Santiago de Compostela. Iria Pastor-Gómez is an FPU researcher funded by the Spanish Ministry for Science and Innovation at the University of Santiago de Compostela. David Tizón-Couto works as a research assistant to the Language Variation and Textual Categorisation Research Unit at the University of Vigo.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3034300468
• ISBN 13: 9783034300469
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 358
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible