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Register Variation Online
While other books focus on special internet registers, like tweets or texting, no previous study describes the full range of everyday registers found on the searchable web. These …
Corpus Linguistics
This book is about investigating the way people use language in speech and writing. It introduces the corpus-based approach to linguistics, based on analysis of large databases of …
Variation across Speech and Writing
Similarities and differences between speech and writing have been the subject of innumerable studies, but until now there has been no attempt to provide a unified linguistic …
Register, Genre, and Style
This book describes the most important kinds of texts in English and introduces the methodological techniques used to analyse them. Three analytical approaches are introduced and …
Grammatical Complexity in Academic English
Grammatical Complexity in Academic English uses corpus-based analyses to challenge a number of dominant stereotypes and assumptions within linguistics. Biber and Gray tackle the …
Doing Linguistics with a Corpus
Paradoxically, doing corpus linguistics is both easier and harder than it has ever been before. On the one hand, it is easier because we have access to more existing corpora, more …
Grammatical Complexity in Academic English
Grammatical Complexity in Academic English uses corpus-based analyses to challenge a number of dominant stereotypes and assumptions within linguistics. Biber and Gray tackle the …
University Language
University students must cope with a bewildering array of registers, not only to learn academic content, but also to understand course expectations and requirements. While many …
Variation in English
Studies in Language and LinguisticsGeneral Editors- Geoffrey Leech, Department of Modern English Language, Lancaster University and Jenny Thomas, School of English and Linguistics, …
Dimensions of Register Variation
Douglas Biber’s new book extends and refines the research and methodology reported in his ground-breaking Variation Across Speech and Writing (1988). In it he gives a linguistic …