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Dimensions of register variation :

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Dimensions of register variation :

[Book]

a cross-linguistic comparison /

Douglas Biber.

New York :

Cambridge University Press,

1995.

1 online resource (xvi, 428 pages) :

illustrations

Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-424) and index.

1. Introduction -- 2. The comprehensive analysis of register variation -- 3. Sociocultural description of the four language situations -- 4. The linguistic bases of cross-linguistic register comparisons: a detailed quantitative comparison of English and Somali registers -- 5. Methodology -- 6. Multi-Dimensional analyses of the four languages -- 7. Cross-linguistic patterns of register variation: synchronic similarities and differences -- 8. Cross-linguistic patterns of register variation: diachronic similarities and differences -- 9. Registers and text types in English and Somali -- 10. Towards cross-linguistic universals of registers variation -- Appendix I: Grammatical description of linguistic features in Korean / Yong-Jin Kim -- Appendix II: Grammatical description of linguistic features in Somali / Mohamed Hared and Douglas Biber.

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Douglas Biber's new book gives a linguistic analysis of register in four widely differing languages: English, Nukulaelae Tuvaluan, Korean, and Somali.

Dimensions of register variation.

Contrastive linguistics.

Register (Linguistics)

Contrastive linguistics.

Register (Linguistics)

Biber, Douglas.

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