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Berber Sardinha, Tony and Marcia Veirano Pinto, eds. 2014. Multi-Dimensional Analysis, 25 years on. A tribute to Douglas Biber. (Studies in Corpus Linguistics 60). John Benjamins. xxxviii, 328 pp.
Publication type
Book – edited volume
Publication language
English
Language as a subject

Annotation

Approximately a quarter of a century ago, the Multi-Dimensional (MD) approach—one of the most powerful (and controversial) methods in Corpus Linguistics—saw its first book-length treatment. In its eleven chapters, this volume presents all new contributions covering a wide range of written and spoken registers, such as movies, music, magazine texts, student writing, social media, letters to the editor, and reports, in different languages (English, Spanish, Portuguese) and contexts (engineering, journalism, the classroom, the entertainment industry, the Internet, etc.). The book also includes a personal account of the development of the method by its creator, Doug Biber, an introduction to MD statistics, as well as an application of MD analysis to corpus design.