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Grammatical Complexity in Academic English: Linguistic Change in Writing (Studies in English Language) by Douglas Biber, Bethany Gray is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Grammatical Complexity in Academic English: Linguistic Change in Writing (Studies in English Language) about?

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, and applied linguists, as well as descriptive linguists and historical linguists.

Who reads Grammatical Complexity in Academic English: Linguistic Change in Writing (Studies in English Language)?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Douglas Biber, Bethany Gray
Publisher
Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press
Published
2016
Language
EN
ISBN
9781316466308
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Historical Fiction, Linguistics, Law

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