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Variation across speech and writing

Paperback • 1991 • English

Variation across speech and writing

By Douglas Biber

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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...Show more

Literacy
Computational and corpus linguistics

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ISBN

9780521425568

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published year

1991

Language

English

Original title

Variation across speech and writing

Format

Paperback

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