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001 2015028909
003 DLC
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008 150818s2015 enk b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2015028909
020 $a9781107009264 (hardback)
040 $aDLC$beng$erda$cDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aP128.C664$bB47 2015
082 00 $a425$223
100 1 $aBiber, Douglas,$eauthor.
245 10 $aGrammatical complexity in academic English :$blinguistic change in writing /$cDouglas Biber, Northern Arizona University ; Bethany Gray, Iowa State University.
263 $a1511
264 1 $aCambridge :$bCambridge University Press,$c[2015]
300 $apages cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aStudies in English language
520 $a"Grammatical Complexity in Academic English uses corpus-based analyses to challenge a number of dominant stereotypes and assumptions within linguistics. Biber and Gray tackle the nature of grammatical complexity, demonstrating that embedded phrasal structures are as important as embedded dependent clauses. The authors also overturn ingrained assumptions about linguistic change, showing that grammatical change occurs in writing as well as speech. This work establishes that academic writing is structurally compressed (rather than elaborated); that it is often not explicit in the expression of meaning; and that scientific academic writing has been the locus of some of the most important grammatical changes in English over the past 200 years (rather than being conservative and resistant to change). Supported throughout with textual evidence, this work is essential reading for discourse analysts, sociolinguists, applied linguists, as well as descriptive linguists and historical linguists"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: 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.
650 0 $aEnglish language$xGrammar.
650 0 $aComplexity (Linguistics)
650 0 $aAcademic writing$xResearch.
650 0 $aLinguistic change.
700 1 $aGray, Bethany,$eauthor.
856 42 $3Cover image$uhttp://assets.cambridge.org/97811070/09264/cover/9781107009264.jpg