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" Dimensions of register variation : "
Douglas Biber.
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BL
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990807
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b745177
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| Main Entry
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Biber, Douglas.
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Dimensions of register variation : : a cross-linguistic comparison /\ Douglas Biber.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge ;New York :: Cambridge University Press,, 1995.
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1 online resource (xvi, 428 pages) :: illustrations
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0511519877
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: 0521024110
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: 9780511519871
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: 9780521024112
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0521473314
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9780521473316
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-424) and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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Contrastive linguistics.
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Register (Linguistics)
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Contrastive linguistics.
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Register (Linguistics)
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| Dewey Classification
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306.4/4
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P302.815.B53 1995eb
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