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Publication details [#24794]

Biber, Douglas. 1988. Variation across speech and writing. Cambridge University Press. xiii + 299 pp.

Publication type

Book – monograph

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse analysis | speech | variability | writing

Annotation

This book provides a principled analysis, based on statistical tools, for the differences between spoken and written language. The method enables to identify sets of significant cooccurring linguistic features, grouped into dimensions, and to characterize a variety of spoken and written genres with respect to these dimensions.

Reviewed by

Maier, Elisabeth A. 1993. Review of $Variation across speech and writing.

Jucker, Andreas H. 1989. Review of D.Biber (1988: `Variation in speech and writing').

Algeo, John. 1991. Review of D.Biber (1988: `Variation across speech and writing').