Dimensions of Register Variation: A Cross-Linguistic Comparison

By Douglas Biber

Book 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521024110
• ISBN13: 9780521024112
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"