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This book describes the most important kinds of texts in English and introduces the methodological techniques used to analyse them. Three analytical a...
While other books focus on special internet registers, like tweets or texting, no previous study describes the full range of everyday registers found ...
Investigating Language Structure and Use
An investigation into the way people use language in speech and writing, this volume introduces the corpus-based approach, which is based on analysis ...
Similarities and differences between speech and writing have been the subject of innumerable studies, but until now there has been no attempt to provi...
A Practical Framework for Corpus Representativeness
This volume introduces a new framework for conceptualizing and achieving corpus representativeness in a rigorous, yet practical way....
Using Corpus Analysis to Describe Discourse Structure
Discourse on the Move is the first book-length exploration of how corpus-based methods can be used for discourse analysis, applied to the description ...
The completely redesigned Grammar of Spoken and Written English is a comprehensive corpus-based reference grammar. GSWE describes the structural chara...
A Cross-Linguistic Comparison
Douglas Biber's new book extends and refines the research and methodology reported in his ground breaking Variation Across Speech and Writing (CUP 198...
Linguistic Change in Writing
Grammatical Complexity in Academic English uses corpus-based analyses to challenge a number of dominant stereotypes and assumptions within linguistics...
A Corpus-based Study of Spoken and Written Registers
University students must cope with a bewildering array of registers, not only to learn academic content, but also to understand course expectations an...
This collection brings together several perspectives on language varieties defined according to their contexts of use--what are variously called regis...
This grammar reference is written for the advanced student. It combines explanations of English grammar with information on how, when and why we use d...
Methodological Considerations for the Everyday User
Paradoxically, doing corpus linguistics is both easier and harder than it has ever been before. On the one hand, it is easier because we have access t...
Multi-Dimensional Studies
Studies in Language and Linguistics General Editors- Geoffrey Leech, Department of Modern English Language, Lancaster University and Jenny Thomas, Sch...
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Theoretical Foundation, Descriptive Research Findings, Application
This collection brings together the authors' previous research with new work on the Register-Functional (RF) approach to grammatical complexity, offer...
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A Corpus-based Approach to English
Grammar instruction based on corpus research. 50 grammatical structures presented in context. With activities, and answers in attached booklet. Suitab...