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Author Biber, Douglas.

Title University language : a corpus-based study of spoken and written registers / Douglas Biber
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, 2006

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Description viii, 261 pages
Series Studies in corpus linguistics, 1388-0373 ; 23
Studies in corpus linguistics ; v. 23
Studies in corpus linguistics. 1388-0373 ; 23
Contents 1. Introduction -- 2. The spoken and written academic language (T2K-SWAL) corpus -- 3. Vocabular use in classroom teaching and textbooks -- 4. Grammatical variation among university registers -- 5. The expression of stance in university registers -- 6. Lexical bundles in university teaching and textbooks -- 7. Multi-dimensional patterns of variation among university registers -- 8. Synthesis and future directions -- App. A. Analytical procedures for the linguistic analyses -- App. B. Methodological issues in quantitative vocabulary analyses
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Academic language -- Data processing.
Register (Linguistics) -- Data processing.
LC no. 2006045871
ISBN 9027222967 paperback
9027222959