1st Edition

Variation in English Multi-Dimensional Studies

By Douglas Biber, Susan Conrad Copyright 2001
264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

Studies in Language and Linguistics General Editors- Geoffrey Leech, Department of Modern English Language, Lancaster University and Jenny Thomas, School of English and Linguistics, University of Wales, Bangor Broad-ranging and authoritative, Studies in Language and Linguistics is an occasional series incorporating major new work in all areas of linguistics. Variation in English-... Read more
List of Contributors Publisher's Acknowledgements Part 1 — Introduction to Multi-Dimensional Analysis Part II — Multi-Dimensional Studies Based on the 1988 Model of Variation in Spoken and Written Registers Part III — Other Studies Based on the Multi-Dimensional Approach References Index

Biography

Susan Conrad is an assistant professor in the Department of English and Program in Linguistics at Iowa State University. She is the co-author of Corpus Linguistics- Investigating Language Structure and Use (1998) and the Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English (1999).
Douglas Biber is Regents' Professor of English (Applied Linguistics) at Northern Arizona University. His works include Variation Across Speech and Writing (1988), Dimensions of Register Variation- A Cross-Linguistic Comparison (1995), Corpus Liinguistics- Investigating Language Structure and Use (with Conrad and Reppen, 1998) and the co-authored Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English (1999).