Dimensions of Register Variation: A Cross-Linguistic Comparison

by Douglas Biber

2020-12-29 09:31:55

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... Read more
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. Less

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File size8.98 X 5.98 X 0.98 in
Print pages448
PublisherCambridge University Press
Publication date February 13, 2006
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780521024112

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