Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of tables; List of figures; Preface; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Variability in sociolinguistics and stylistics; 2.1. Introduction; 2.2. Three approaches to the concept of style; 2.3. The notions "variety" and "style"; 2.4. Stylistic variation; 2.5. Audience design; 2.6. Some recent studies in media language; 3. Socio-economic differentiation of the British dailies; 3.1. "Qualities" and "populars"; 3.2. Readership profiles; 3.3. Differences in appearance and coverage; 3.4. Conclusion; 4. Structure of noun phrases; 4.1. Introduction; 4.2. Premodification; 4.3. Postmodification
  • 4.4. Multiple modifications 5. Noun phrases as style markers; 5.1. Introduction; 5.2. Noun phrase variables in paradigmatic relationships; 5.3. Premodifier variation; 5.4. Complexity as style marker; 5.5. Conclusions and hypotheses; 6. Distribution and complexity; 6.1. Introduction; 6.2. The density of modifiers; 6.3. Multiple modifications and modifier embedding; 6.4. Noun phrase complexity in the three newspaper categories; 6.5. Noun phrase complexity in the five newspaper sections; 6.6. Cluster analysis; 7. Premodifications; 7.1. Types of premodifiers
  • 7.2. Stylistic significance of premodifier variation 7.3. The individual styles; 7.4. Summary; 8. Postmodifications; 8.1. Types of postmodifiers; 8.2. Stylistic significance of postmodifier variation; 8.3. The individual styles; 8.4. Summary; 9. Noun phrase name appositions; 9.1. Introduction; 9.2. The honorific-title-appositive gradients; 9.3. Previous studies; 9.4. Linguistic constraints; 9.5. Social constraints; 9.6. Noun phrase name appositions in the sports section; 9.7. The structure of the name in appositions; 9.8. Summary; 10. Conclusion; Notes; Appendix I Coding scheme
  • Appendix II Corpus Appendix III Tables; A.3 Readership profiles; A.6 Noun phrase complexity; A.7 Premodification; A.8 Postmodification; A.9 Apposition formats; References; Index