\ Douglas Biber, Northern Arizona University ; Bethany Gray, Iowa State University.
Cambridge, United Kingdom
: Cambridge University Press
, 2016.
xiv, 277 p.
:ill.
;24 cm.
Studies in English language
Index
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Machine generated contents note: 1. Academic writing: challenging the stereotypes; 2. Using corpora to analyze grammatical change; 3. Phrasal versus clausal discourse styles: a synchronic grammatical description of academic writing contrasted with other registers; 4. The historical evolution of phrasal discourse styles in academic writing; 5. The functional extension of phrasal grammatical features in academic writing; 6. The loss of explicitness in academic research writing; 7. Conclusion.