Bøger af Beatrix Busse

This book is a collection of the ICAME41 conference proceedings covering a range of topics in corpus linguistics. Busse et al. Explore contemporary trends and new directions in the field. Papers focusing on historical linguistics include Bohmann et al's study on the passive alternation in 19th and 20th century American English whilst Iyeiri and Fukunaga investigate negation in 19th century American missionary documents. Bohmann's emphasis is on the Contrastive usage profiling method to represent online discourse data. Empirical studies on discourse analysis include Brooks' analysis of how the UK press portrays obesity, Coats generating ASR transcripts to look at dialect data from YouTube, and Gonzalez-Cruz's pragmatic considerations of Anglicisms entering Canarian-Spanish digital headlines. Schneider use statistical models to look at language comprehension in an eye-tracking corpus.

Im Handbuch wird Sprache im urbanen Raum als Forschungsfeld umrissen. Urbanität wird dabei als ein nicht zuletzt sprachlich konstituiertes System von spezifisch aufeinander bezogenen Dimensionen, Aktionen und Repräsentationen verstanden. Im Zentrum steht die Erörterung tradierter und innovativer Ansätze, Methodologien und Theorien der Urban Linguistics unter Berücksichtigung interdisziplinärer Schnittstellen. Der Band vermittelt Grundlagenwissen zu einem zentralen Forschungsfeld interdisziplinär interessierter Linguistik.

Inspired by Exploring the Language of Poems, Plays and Prose, Mick Short's classic introduction to stylistics, Language and Style represents the state-of-the-art in literary stylistics and encompasses the full breadth of current research in the discipline.

Stylistics is the study of the ways in which meaning is created and shaped through language, in literature and in other types of text. This book provides the reader with a comprehensive overview of the field, along with sections that explain relevant terms, concepts and key thinkers, listed from A to Z.