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Dimensions of Register Variation: A Cross-Linguistic Comparison (Volume 0) - Softcover

Biber, Douglas

 
9780521024112: Dimensions of Register Variation: A Cross-Linguistic Comparison (Volume 0)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0521024110 ISBN 13: 9780521024112
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2006

Synopsis

Douglas Biber's new book extends and refines the research and methodology reported in his ground-breaking Variation Across Speech and Writing (1988), and adds for the first time a diachronic dimension. In it he gives a linguistic analysis of register in four widely differing languages: English, Nukulaelae Tuvaluan, Korean, and Somali. Striking similarities as well as differences emerge, allowing Biber to predict for the first time cross-linguistic universals of register variation.

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Language Notes

Text: English

Review

"The book is well edited, very readable, and does not assume familiarity with sampling methods in corpus linguistics. It has a detailed table of contents and a helpful index." James K. Watters, Notes on Linguistics

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2006
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521024110
ISBN 13 
9780521024112
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
448