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Dimensions of Register Variation: A Cross-Linguistic Comparison - Hardcover

Douglas Biber

 
9780521473316: Dimensions of Register Variation: A Cross-Linguistic Comparison

Synopsis

Douglas Biber's new book gives a linguistic analysis of register in four widely differing languages: English, Nukulaelae Tuvaluan, Korean, and Somali.

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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

Book Description

Douglas Biber's new book extends and refines the research and methodology reported in his ground breaking Variation Across Speech and Writing (CUP, 1988), and adds for the first time a diachronic dimension.

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9780521024112: Dimensions of Register Variation: A Cross-Linguistic Comparison

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ISBN 10:  0521024110 ISBN 13:  9780521024112
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2008
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