Grammatical complexity in academic English : linguistic change in writing / Douglas Biber, Northern Arizona University ; Bethany Gray, Iowa State University.
By: Biber, Douglas [author.].
Contributor(s): Gray, Bethany [author.].
Series: Studies in English language.Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, [2015]Description: pages cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781107009264 (hardback).Subject(s): English language -- Grammar | Complexity (Linguistics) | Academic writing -- Research | Linguistic changeGenre/Form: Print books.DDC classification: 425Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine 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.
"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"-- Provided by publisher.