Social Stylistics
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Social Stylistics

Syntactic Variation in British Newspapers

  1. 319 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Social Stylistics

Syntactic Variation in British Newspapers

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Table of contents

  1. List of tables
  2. List of figures
  3. Preface
  4. Abbreviations
  5. 1. Introduction
  6. 2. Variability in sociolinguistics and stylistics
  7. 2.1. Introduction
  8. 2.2. Three approaches to the concept of style
  9. 2.3. The notions “variety” and “style”
  10. 2.4. Stylistic variation
  11. 2.5. Audience design
  12. 2.6. Some recent studies in media language
  13. 3. Socio-economic differentiation of the British dailies
  14. 3.1. “Qualities” and “populars”
  15. 3.2. Readership profiles
  16. 3.3. Differences in appearance and coverage
  17. 3.4. Conclusion
  18. 4. Structure of noun phrases
  19. 4.1. Introduction
  20. 4.2. Premodification
  21. 4.3. Postmodification
  22. 4.4. Multiple modifications
  23. 5. Noun phrases as style markers
  24. 5.1. Introduction
  25. 5.2. Noun phrase variables in paradigmatic relationships
  26. 5.3. Premodifier variation
  27. 5.4. Complexity as style marker
  28. 5.5. Conclusions and hypotheses
  29. 6. Distribution and complexity
  30. 6.1. Introduction
  31. 6.2. The density of modifiers
  32. 6.3. Multiple modifications and modifier embedding
  33. 6.4. Noun phrase complexity in the three newspaper categories
  34. 6.5. Noun phrase complexity in the five newspaper sections
  35. 6.6. Cluster analysis
  36. 7. Premodifications
  37. 7.1. Types of premodifiers
  38. 7.2. Stylistic significance of premodifier variation
  39. 7.3. The individual styles
  40. 7.4. Summary
  41. 8. Postmodifications
  42. 8.1. Types of postmodifiers
  43. 8.2. Stylistic significance of postmodifier variation
  44. 8.3. The individual styles
  45. 8.4. Summary
  46. 9. Noun phrase name appositions
  47. 9.1. Introduction
  48. 9.2. The honorific-title-appositive gradients
  49. 9.3. Previous studies
  50. 9.4. Linguistic constraints
  51. 9.5. Social constraints
  52. 9.6. Noun phrase name appositions in the sports section
  53. 9.7. The structure of the name in appositions
  54. 9.8. Summary
  55. 10. Conclusion
  56. Notes
  57. Appendix I Coding scheme
  58. Appendix II Corpus
  59. Appendix III Tables
  60. A.3 Readership profiles
  61. A.6 Noun phrase complexity
  62. A.7 Premodification
  63. A.8 Postmodification
  64. A.9 Apposition formats
  65. References
  66. Index