Author: Douglas Biber
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: writing, speech, across, variation
Number of Pages: 316
Published: 1992-03-27
List price: $58.00
ISBN-10: 0521425565
ISBN-13: 9780521425568

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 analysis of the whole range of spoken and written registers in English. In this widely acclaimed empirical study, Douglas Biber uses computational techniques to analyze the linguistic characteristics of twenty-three spoken and written genres, enabling identification of the basic, underlying dimensions of variation in English. In Variation Across Speech and Writing, six dimensions of variation are identified through a f

Author: Douglas Biber
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: linguistic, comparison, cross, variation, register, dimensions
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2006-02-13
List price: $80.00
ISBN-10: 0521024110
ISBN-13: 9780521024112

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.

Author: Douglas Biber
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: linguistic, comparison, cross, variation, register, dimensions
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 1995-09-29
List price: $140.00
ISBN-10: 0521473314
ISBN-13: 9780521473316

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.

Author: Douglas Biber
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub Co
Keywords: corpus, registers, studies, written, linguistics, study, language, based, university, spoken
Number of Pages: 261
Published: 2006-06-01
List price: $54.00
ISBN-10: 9027222967
ISBN-13: 9789027222961

Authors:Douglas Biber, Susan Conrad,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: textbooks, linguistics, cambridge, style, genre, register
Number of Pages: 354
Published: 2009-12-14
List price: $37.99
ISBN-10: 0521677890
ISBN-13: 9780521677899

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 compared, describing a wide range of texts from the perspectives of register, genre and style. The primary focus of the book is on the analysis of registers. Part 1 introduces an analytical framework for studying registers, genre conventions, and styles. Part 2 provides detailed descriptions of particular text varieties in English, including spoken interpersonal varieties (conversation, university office hours, servi

Authors:Susan Conrad, Douglas Biber,
Publisher: Pearson ESL
Keywords: approach, english, based, corpus, grammar, real
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2009-06-26
List price: $26.33
ISBN-10: 0135155878
ISBN-13: 9780135155875

Authors:Douglas Biber, Edward Finegan,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: studies, sociolinguistics, oxford, register, perspectives, sociolinguistic
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 1994-01-13
List price: $150.00
ISBN-10: 0195083644
ISBN-13: 9780195083644

This collection brings together several perspectives on language varieties defined according to their contexts of use - what are variously called registers, sublanguages, or genres. Highlighting the importance of register variation, the volume includes empirical analyses and linguistic descriptions, as well as explanations for existing patterns of variation and proposals for theoretical frameworks. The authors treat languages in obsolescence and in their youth; examine registers in languages from around the globe; and, adopting both synchronic and diachronic perspectives, studies of registers