Contrastive Register Variation : : A Quantitative Approach to the Comparison of English and German / / Stella Neumann.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• VerfasserIn: Neumann, Stella,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2013]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 251
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (361 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Acknowledgements --; Contents --; List of tables and figures --; List of abbreviations --; Chapter 1. Introduction --; Part 1: Theoretical foundations --; Chapter 2. State of the art --; Chapter 3. On empirical methods in linguistics --; Chapter 4. Indicators of register classification --; Part 2: Empirical analysis --; Chapter 5. Research design --; Chapter 6. English intralingual register variation --; Chapter 7. German intralingual register variation --; Chapter 8. Cross-linguistic register comparison --; Chapter 9. Variation between originals and translations --; Chapter 10. Insights on register variation --; Chapter 11. Conclusions --; References --; Appendix --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110238594; 9783110238570; 9783110238457; 9783110636970; 9783110742961; 9783110317350; 9783110317244; 9783110317237
• ISSN: 1861-4302
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110238594
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Stella Neumann.

The book provides the first comparison of usage preferences across registers in the language pair English-German. Due to the innovative quantitative approach and broad coverage, the volume is an excellent resource for scholars working in contrastive linguistics and translation studies as well as for corpus linguists.