Variation Across Speech and Writing

Name: Variation Across Speech and Writing
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ISBN: 9780521425568

ISBN-10: 0521425565

ISBN-13: 9780521425568

Edition: 1991

Authors: Douglas Biber

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Similarities and differences between speech and writing have been the subject of innumerable studies, but until now there has been no attempt to provide a unified linguistic analysis of the whole range of spoken and written registers in English. In this widely acclaimed empirical study, Douglas Biber uses computational techniques to analyze the linguistic characteristics of twenty-three spoken and written genres, enabling identification of the basic, underlying dimensions of variation in English. In Variation Across Speech and Writing, six dimensions of variation are identified through a factor analysis, on the basis of linguistic co-occurence patterns. The resulting model of variation…

Book details

List price: $83.99
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 12/19/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 316
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



List of figures


List of tables


Acknowledgments



Background concepts and issues



Introduction: textual dimensions and relations



Situations and functions



Previous linguistic research on speech and writing



Methodology



Methodological overview of the study



Statistical analysis



Dimensions and relations in English



Textual dimensions in speech and writing



Textual relations in speech and writing



Extending the description: variation within genres



Afterword: applying the model



Texts used in the study



Linguistic features: algorithms and functions



Mean frequency counts of all linguistic features in each genre



Pearson correlation coefficients for all linguistic features


References


Index