TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gray,Bethany
TI  - Linguistic Variation in Research Articles. When discipline tells only part of the story
SN  - 9789027268044
AV  - P126 
U1  - 401.4 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Philadelphia
PB  - John Benjamins Publishing Company
KW  - Linguistic analysis (Linguistics)
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Linguistic Variation in Research Articles -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of tables -- List of figures -- Introduction -- 1.1 Academic research writing: One register or many? -- 1.1.1 A note on 'register' -- 1.1.2 Goal of the present book -- 1.2 The linguistic characteristics of academic writing -- 1.3 Linguistic variation and disciplinary writing -- 1.4 Trends and gaps in the study of disciplinary writing -- 1.5 Overview of the book: Applying corpus analytical approaches to disciplinary register variation -- Describing the domain of academic journal writing -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Surveying the Domain of Disciplinary Journal Writing -- 2.2.1 Procedures -- 2.2.2 A taxonomy of academic journal registers -- 2.2.3 Some issues in applying a taxonomy of research articles -- 2.3 Journal Registers in the Disciplines -- 2.4 Implications for Corpus Design -- Building and analyzing the academic journal register corpus -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Corpus Collection Procedures -- 3.2.1 Formation of operational definitions for journal registers in specific disciplines -- 3.2.2 Journal and article selection -- 3.2.3 File conversion and clean-up -- 3.3 Corpus Description: The Academic Journal Register Corpus -- 3.4 Corpus Annotation -- 3.4.1 'Tagging': Part of speech annotation -- 3.4.2 Accuracy of automatic tagging -- 3.5 Overview: Procedures for Quantitative Corpus Analysis -- The situational characteristics of the Academic Journal Register Corpus -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Motivating a new situational framework for journal registers -- 4.3 A framework for the situational characteristics of journal registers -- 4.3.1 Participants -- 4.3.2 Textual layout and organization -- 4.3.3 Setting -- 4.3.4 Subject/topic -- 4.3.5 Purpose -- 4.3.6 Nature of data or evidence -- 4.3.7 Methodology; 4.3.8 Explicitness of research design -- 4.4 The situational characteristics of the Academic Journal Register Corpus -- 4.4.1 Common characteristics across journal registers -- 4.4.2 Theoretical articles in philosophy -- 4.4.3 Qualitative articles in history -- 4.4.4 Qualitative and quantitative articles in political science -- 4.4.5 Qualitative and quantitative articles in applied linguistics -- 4.4.6 Quantitative articles in biology -- 4.4.7 Quantitative and theoretical articles in physics -- 4.5 Trends in the situational characteristics of the Academic Journal Register Corpus -- A lexical and grammatical survey -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Grammatical Variation in Academic Prose -- 5.3 Carrying Out a Lexical and Grammatical Survey -- 5.4 Distribution of Core Grammatical Features -- 5.4.1 Nouns -- 5.4.2 Verbs -- 5.4.3 The verb phrase: Passive voice -- 5.4.4 The verb phrase: Tense and aspect -- 5.4.5 Personal pronouns -- 5.5 Summing Up: Lexical and Grammatical Variation -- Structural complexity in journal registers -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Features of elaboration and compression in academic prose -- 6.3 Carrying out a study of structural complexity -- 6.4 The use of features of structural elaboration and compression -- 6.4.1 Clausal elaboration -- 6.4.2 Phrasal compression -- 6.4.3 Intermediate features: Clausal modifiers in the noun phrase -- 6.5 Summing up: Clausal Elaboration and phrasal compression -- 6.6 Conclusions -- A multi-dimensional analysis of journal registers -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Background: Multi-dimensional analyses of academic language -- 7.3 Carrying out a new multi-dimensional analysis -- 7.3.1 Initial factor analyses to determine linguistic variables -- 7.3.2 Final factor analysis -- 7.3.3 Calculating and comparing factor scores across disciplines and registers; 7.4 Dimensions of variation in academic journal registers in 6  disciplines -- 7.4.1 Dimension 1: Academic involvement and elaboration vs. informational density -- 7.4.2 Dimension 2: Contextualized narration vs. procedural discourse -- 7.4.3 Dimension 3: Human vs. non-human focus -- 7.4.4 Dimension 4: 'Academese' -- 7.5 Conclusions -- A Synthesis -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Summing up: Linguistic variation in the Academic Journal  Register Corpus -- 8.2.1 How does language use vary across discipline? -- 8.2.2 How does language use vary across academic journal registers? -- 8.3 Three grammatical analyses and future directions -- 8.3.1 What have we learned from three complementary approaches? -- 8.3.2 Future research using corpus analytical techniques to investigate variation in academic journal registers -- 8.3.3 Implications: Future linguistic features of interest -- 8.3.4 Implications: Corpus design for studies of disciplinary writing -- References -- Appendix A. Journals examined during taxonomy development -- Appendix B. Reliability of automatic tags -- Appendix C. Semantic classes of nouns, verbs, and adjectives -- Appendix D. Full factorial structure matrix for the four-factor solution -- Appendix E. Scree plot of the four-factor solution -- Appendix F. Significance testing for four-factor solution -- Index
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