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This book focuses on aspects of variation and change in language use in spoken and written discourse on the basis of corpus analyses, providing new descriptive insights, and new methods of utilising small specialized corpora for the description of language variation and change. The sixteen contributions included in this volume represent a variety of diverse views and approaches, but all share the common goal of throwing light on a crucial dimension of discourse: the dialogic interactivity between the spoken and written. Their foci range from papers addressing general issues related to corpus analysis of spoken dialogue to papers focusing on specific cases employing a variety of analytical tools, including qualitative and quantitative analysis of small and large corpora. The present volume constitutes a highly valuable tool for applied linguists and discourse analysts as well as for students, instructors and language teachers.
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Variation and Change in Spoken and Written Discourse Dialogue Studies (DS) Dialogue Studies takes the notion of dialogicity as central; it encompasses every type of language use, workaday, institutional and literary. By covering the whole range of language use, the growing field of dialogue studies comes close to pragmatics and studies in discourse or conversation. The concept of dialogicity, however, provides a clear methodological profile. The series aims to cross disciplinary boundaries and considers a genuinely inter-disciplinary approach necessary for addressing the complex phenomenon of dialogic language use. This peer reviewed series will include monographs, thematic collections of articles, and textbooks in the relevant areas. For an overview of all books published in this series, please see http://benjamins.com/catalog/ds Editor Assistant Editor Edda Weigand Sebastian Feller University of Münster A*STAR - Institute of High Performance Computing, Singapore Editorial Advisory Board Adelino Cattani Fritjof Haft Talbot J. Taylor Kenneth N. Cissna John E. Joseph Wolfgang Teubert François Cooren Werner Kallmeyer Linda R. Waugh Robert T. Craig Catherine Kerbrat-Orecchioni Elda Weizman Stefanie Molthagen-Schnöring Yorick Wilks Università di Padova University of South Florida Université de Montréal University of Colorado at Boulder Marcelo Dascal University of Tübingen University of Edinburgh University of Mannheim Université Lyon 2 Tel Aviv University Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin Valeri Demiankov Geoffrey Sampson Marion Grein Masayoshi Shibatani Russian Academy of Sciences University of Mainz College of William and Mary University of Birmingham University of Arizona Bar Ilan University University of Sheffield University of Sussex Rice University Volume 21 Variation and Change in Spoken and Written Discourse Perspectives from corpus linguistics Edited by Julia Bamford, Silvia Cavalieri and Giuliana Diani Variation and Change in Spoken and Written Discourse Perspectives from corpus linguistics Edited by Julia Bamford Università di Napoli “L’Orientale” Silvia Cavalieri Università di Milano Giuliana Diani Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam / Philadelphia 8 TM The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences – Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ansi z39.48-1984. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Variation and Change in Spoken and Written Discourse : P