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Author Hansen, Beke, author.

Title Corpus linguistics and sociolinguistics : a study of variation and change in the modal systems of world Englishes / by Beke Hansen.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Language and computers : studies in digital linguistics, 0921-5034 ; volume 82
Language and computers ; v. 82.
Summary "In Corpus Linguistics and Sociolinguistics, Beke Hansen analyses variation and change in the modal systems of second-language varieties of English by taking a sociolinguistic approach to corpus data. Her study focuses on the modal and semi-modal verbs of strong obligation and necessity in the South- and Southeast Asian varieties Indian English, Hong Kong English, and Singapore English based on the relevant ICE component corpora. She adopts a typologically-informed perspective on variation in World Englishes by comparing the structures of the speakers' first languages with the structures of the emergent varieties in the expression of epistemic modality. Beyond this, she analyses language change by constructing apparent-time scenarios to compensate for the lack of diachronic corpora in World Englishes"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Previous research -- The theoretical framework -- Methodology -- Obligation and necessity in ENL and ESL -- The feature pool of obligation and necessity -- Selection principles in the feature pool -- Apparent-time developments -- Competition between must and have to -- Thematic conclusion of the study -- Methodological implications of the study.
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Subject English language -- Modality.
English language -- Discourse analysis.
Corpora (Linguistics)
Sociolinguistics.
sociolinguistics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
Corpora (Linguistics)
English language -- Discourse analysis
English language -- Modality
Sociolinguistics
Other Form: Print version: Hansen, Beke. Corpus linguistics and sociolinguistics. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018] 9789004381513 (DLC) 2018035523
ISBN 900438152X
9789004381520 (electronic bk.)
9789004381513
Standard No. 10.1163/9789004381520