| Dimensions of Register Variation: A Cross-Linguistic Comparison Revised Edition Contributor(s): Biber, Douglas (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521024110 ISBN-13: 9780521024112 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $53.19 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2006 Annotation: 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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| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Sociolinguistics |
| Dewey: 306.44 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6" W x 9" (1.44 lbs) 448 pages |