Syntactic Variation and Genre (eds.H. Dorgeloh&A.Wanner), syntax
[ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
Syntactic Variation and Genre
Topics in English Linguistics
70
Editors
Bernd Kortmann
Elizabeth Closs Traugott
De Gruyter Mouton
Syntactic Variation
and Genre
Edited by
Heidrun Dorgeloh
Anja Wanner
De Gruyter Mouton
ISBN 978-3-11-022647-8
e-ISBN 978-3-11-022648-5
ISSN 1434-3452
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Syntactic variation and genre / edited by Heidrun Dorgeloh, Anja
Wanner.
p. cm.
(Topics in english linguistics; 70)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-3-11-022647-8 (alk. paper)
1. Grammar, Comparative and general
Syntax.
2. Language
and languages
Variation.
I. Dorgeloh, Heidrun.
II. Wanner,
Anja.
P291.S9545
2010
415
dc22
2010039817
Bibliographic information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie;
”
2010 Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, 10785 Berlin/New York
Cover image: Brian Stablyk/Photographer’s Choice RF/Getty Images
Typesetting: PTP-Berlin Protago T
E
X-Production GmbH, Berlin
Printing: Hubert & Co. GmbH & Co. KG, Göttingen
Printed on acid-free paper
Printed in Germany
www.degruyter.com
Preface
This volume is based on a workshop we organized as part of the Annual Meeting
of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS) in 2007. The workshop focused on
the role of syntax in the emergence of new genres and brought together insights
from research that uses the concept of genre as a reference-point for the de-
scription (and, possibly, explanation) of patterns of morphosyntactic variation.
Our thanks go to everyone who made the workshop a success: the selection
committee of the DGfS for the opportunity to offer the workshop, the Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft for providing travel support for invited speakers, and,
most importantly, the workshop participants, who were willing to listen to and
learn about approaches to the intersection of grammar and genre that were dif-
ferent from their own.
Organizing a workshop is one thing, editing a book another. While this col-
lection grew out of the DGfS workshop, it is not a proceedings volume. Most
of the papers selected from the workshop were rewritten, revised, or newly
contextualized. In addition to the articles based on the workshop, this volume
also includes papers by scholars whom we specifically invited to contribute. We
thank all authors for their commitment to the consideration of the term “genre”
as a multi-faceted concept and to facilitating communication among different
approaches. We also warmly thank the editors of the series
Topics in English
Linguistics
, Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Bernd Kortmann, for their enthusiasm
for this project, and our editor at Mouton, Birgit Sievert, for her patience and
advice, and for making book-editing look effortless.
We are grateful to the Graduate School at the University of Wisconsin-
Madison for providing financial support through travel and research grants.
Special thanks go to Katie Gilbert and Ania Hutnik for their scrupulous copy-
editing at various stages of the manuscript, and to Katie Gilbert also for applying
her expertise at editing manuscripts written by non-native speakers of English.
Additionally, we are very much indebted to Gero Brümmer for his assistance
with compiling the index.
This book is also the result of a long-standing transatlantic collaboration and
friendship. We thank Dieter Stein for introducing us to each other at a DGfS
summer school many years ago and for supporting our work ever since. Alas,
nothing would have been accomplished without the unequivocal support of our
families, who put up with many inconveniences arising from lengthy phone calls
at odd hours or work meetings that were squeezed into precious vacation time.
You are the best.
Heidrun Dorgeloh and Anja Wanner
[ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]