Douglas Biber, Bethany Gray

Grammatical Complexity in Academic English

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Using corpus-based analyses, the book challenges widely held beliefs about grammatical complexity, academic writing, and linguistic change in written English.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 427g
• ISBN-13: 9781108712958
• ISBN-10: 1108712959
• Artikelnr.: 55462649

Autorenporträt

Douglas Biber is Regents' Professor of Applied Linguistics in the English Department at Northern Arizona University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Academic writing: challenging the stereotypes
2. Using corpora to analyze grammatical change
3. Phrasal versus clausal discourse styles: a synchronic grammatical description of academic writing contrasted with other registers
4. The historical evolution of phrasal discourse styles in academic writing
5. The functional extension of phrasal grammatical features in academic writing
6. The loss of explicitness in academic research writing
7. Conclusion.