Grammatical Complexity in Academic English
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 bee…
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Weitere Autoren: Gray, Bethany
- ISBN: 978-1-107-00926-4
- EAN: 9781107009264
- Produktnummer: 18528097
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 292 S.
- Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D2.0 cm 579 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 579
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Douglas Biber is Regents' Professor of Applied Linguistics in the English Department at Northern Arizona University.
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