University language a corpus-based study of spoken and written registers

University students must cope with a bewildering array of registers, not only to learn academic content, but also to understand course expectations and requirements. While many previous studies have investigated academic writing, we know comparatively little about academic speech; and no linguistic...

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Autor principal: Biber, Douglas (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins 2006.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Studies in corpus linguistics ; v. 23.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b31604067*spi
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Sumario:University students must cope with a bewildering array of registers, not only to learn academic content, but also to understand course expectations and requirements. While many previous studies have investigated academic writing, we know comparatively little about academic speech; and no linguistic study to date has investigated the range of academic and advising/management registers that students encounter. This book is a first step towards filling this gap. Based on analysis of the T2K-SWAL Corpus, the book describes university registers from several different perspectives, including: vocabu.
Descripción Física:viii, 261 p. : il
Formato:Forma de acceso: World Wide Web.
Bibliografía:Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. [229]-239) e índice.
ISBN:9789027293626
9789027222954
9789027222961