Agile" and "Uptight" Genres

The Corpus-based Approach to Language Change in Progress

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12621908
AutoresMarianne Hundt (0000-0001-6045-2314, University of Freiburg, autor correspondente), C Mair (0000-0001-6549-4951, University of Freiburg)
Ano1999
Volume4
Fascículo2
Páginas221-242
Data de publicação1999-12-31
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoInternational Journal of Corpus Linguistics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1384-6655 • E-ISSN: 1569-9811
EditoraJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/ijcl.4.2.02hun
OpenAlexW2051773373
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas61

This paper is a follow-up study to previous investigations based on the analysis of parallel British and American corpora from the early 1960s and 1990s. It focuses on variables that are suspected to contribute to the growing "colloquicdisation " of the norms of written English, that is, a narrowing of the gap between spoken and written norms. Such a shift in stylistic preferences has been observed in both socio-cultural approaches to language and corpus-based studies. Contrasting material from the press and academic prose sections of standard one-million-word corpora, we are able to show that the two genres differ in the degree to which they are open to innovations or prone to retain conservative features. What we are proposing is a cline of openness to innovation ranging from "agile " to "uptight" genres

Agile software development · Cline (biology · Linguistics · Openness to experience · Sociology · Computer Science · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · History · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity · Philosophy · Psychology