A register variation perspective on varieties of English
Neumann S, Evert S (2021)
Publication Type: Book chapter / Article in edited volumes
Publication year: 2021
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Edited Volumes: Corpus-based Approaches to Register Variation
Series: Studies in Corpus Linguistics
Book Volume: 103
Pages Range: 143-178
Abstract
This chapter reports an exploration of dimensions of register variation across varieties of English. We analyse 2,844 texts from the Hong Kong, Jamaica and New Zealand components of the International Corpus of English, using its text categorization scheme as a frame of reference. We apply Geometric Multivariate Analysis, an interactive procedure for exploring latent structure in language variation, based on the frequencies of 41 lexico-grammatical features informed by systemic functional register theory. Visual inspection of the distribution of texts across the multidimensional space reveals continuities between groups of texts as well as dimensions of variation that can be related to theoretical register constructs. We also observe differences between the three ICE components (and their text categories) in register space.
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APA:
Neumann, S., & Evert, S. (2021). A register variation perspective on varieties of English. In Elena Seoane, Douglas Biber (Eds.), Corpus-based Approaches to Register Variation. (pp. 143-178). John Benjamins Publishing Company.
MLA:
Neumann, Stella, and Stefan Evert. "A register variation perspective on varieties of English." Corpus-based Approaches to Register Variation. Ed. Elena Seoane, Douglas Biber, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2021. 143-178.
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