Dimensions of Register Variation: A Cross-Linguistic Comparison (Paperback) (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
ISBN-10: 0521024110
ISBN-13: 9780521024112
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/13/2006
Pages: 448
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.44lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d