Variation in English: Multi-Dimensional Studies

ISBN-13: 9780582307414 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 264 str.

Susan Conrad; Douglas Biber; D. Prof Biber

Opis

Multi-Dimensional studies (MD) is a new statistical approach to language variation developed by Doug Biber. The methodology involved in this approach means that for the first time, using corpora of spoken and written language from different periods, we can demonstrate how language varies from one type of text to another, for example, how American style varies from British. Doug Biber begins Variation in English: Multi-Dimensional Studies with a discussion of the methodology required and emphasizes the new insights into language variation and use that can be gained from the MD approach.

Spis treści

List of Contributors Publisher's Acknowledgements Part 1 — Introduction to Multi-Dimensional Analysis Part II — Multi-Dimensional Studies Based on the 1988 Model of Variation in Spoken and Written Registers Part III — Other Studies Based on the Multi-Dimensional Approach References Index

O autorze

Susan Conrad is an assistant professor in the Department of English and Program in Linguistics at Iowa State University. She is the co-author of Corpus Linguistics- Investigating Language Structure and Use (1998) and the Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English (1999).
Douglas Biber is Regents' Professor of English (Applied Linguistics) at Northern Arizona University. His works include Variation Across Speech and Writing (1988), Dimensions of Register Variation- A Cross-Linguistic Comparison (1995), Corpus Liinguistics- Investigating Language Structure and Use (with Conrad and Reppen, 1998) and the co-authored Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English (1999).