Variation Across Speech and Writing

by Douglas Biber

In this widely acclaimed empirical study, Douglas Biber uses computational techniques to analyse the linguistic characteristics of twenty-three spoken and written genres, enabling identification of the basic, underlying dimensions of variation in English.

Genres: Linguistics

299 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1988

About the author

Douglas Biber: Regents’ Professor in the Applied Linguistics Program (English Department) at Northern Arizona University.

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