UID:
edocfu_9958353764902883
Format:
1 online resource (261p.)
ISBN:
9783110197808
Series Statement:
Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; 177
Content:
Language users are creatures of habit with a tendency to re-use linguistic material that they have produced or heard before. In other words, linguistic patterns and tokens, once used, persist in spoken discourse. The book explores the determinants of this persistence in corpus data of spoken English, drawing on regression analyses of a variety of functional, discourse-functional, cognitive, psycholinguistic, and external factors. In providing a variationist-probabilistic framework for examining the ways in which different internal and external factors influence speakers' linguistic choices, the study ultimately contributes to a theory of how spoken language works.
Note:
Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Chapter 1 Introduction --
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Chapter 2 Previous research on persistence --
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phenomena --
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Chapter 3 Method and data --
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Chapter 4 Persistence in comparison strategy --
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choice --
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Chapter 5 Persistence in genitive choice --
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Chapter 6 Persistence in future marker --
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choice --
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Chapter 7 Persistence in particle placement --
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Chapter 8 Persistence in complementation strategy --
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choice --
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Chapter 9 Discussion of findings --
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Chapter 10 Conclusion --
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Backmatter
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 978-3-11-019012-0
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9783110197808
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110197808
