Genre- and Register-related Discourse Features in Contrast

This Volume Contributes To Filling A Gap In Corpus-based Research By Investigating The Ways In Which Linguistic Features Vary Across Genres/registers Cross-linguistically. It Brings Together Insightful Chapters By Leading Scholars In The Field, Fruitfully Exploiting Genre- Or Register-controlled Multilingual Parallel And Comparable Corpora To: (i) Problematize Cross-register Variation In A Multilingual Perspective, (ii) Address Methodological And Theoretical Issues Raised By Register-oriented Contrastive And Translation Studies, (iii) Investigate The Cross-linguistic And Cross-genre Variation Of Specific Linguistic Features, Such As Lexical Bundles, Sentence-initial Adverbials And Tag Questions, (iv) Identify Cross-cultural And Cross-linguistic Dissimilarities In Expressing A Functional Category, Viz. Appraisal, In The Field Of Opinion Mining. The Book Offers New Cutting-edge Research That Should Be Of Interest To Specialists In Contrastive Linguistics, Translation Studies And Cross-cultural Studies. Originally Published As A Special Issue Of Languages In Contrast 14:1 (2014).