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Review published In:
International Journal of Corpus Linguistics
Vol.
4:2
(1999) ► pp.
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D.
Biber
.
Dimensions of Register Variation. A cross-linguistic comparison
Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press
,
1995
.
428 pp.
Reviewed by
Rema Rossini Favretti
|
Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Orientalsi, CILTA, University of Bologna
Published online: 12 May 2000
https://doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.4.2.09ros
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