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 unifi

University students must cope with a bewildering array of registers, not only to learn academic content, but also to understand course expectations and requirem

This book focuses on aspects of variation and change in language use in spoken and written discourse on the basis of corpus analyses, providing new descriptive

Douglas Biber's new book extends and refines the research and methodology reported in his ground breaking Variation Across Speech and Writing (CUP 1988). In Dim

Douglas Biber's new book extends and refines the research and methodology reported in his ground-breaking Variation Across Speech and Writing (1988), and adds f