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Dimensions of Register Variation : A Cross-Linguistic Comparison
Overview
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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- ISBN-13: 9780521024112
- ISBN-10: 0521024110
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publish Date: February 2006
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.44 pounds
- Page Count: 448
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