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

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