Variation across speech and writing
      Douglas Biber

      List of figures
      List of tables
      Acknowledgments

      Part I Background concepts and issues

        1 Introduction: textual dimensions and relations
        2 Situations and functions
        3 Previous linguistic research on speech and writing
      Part II Methodology
        4 Methodological overview of the study
        5 Statistical analysis
      Part III Dimensions and relations in English
        6 Textual dimensions in speech and writing
        7 Textual relations in speech and writing
        8 Extending the description; variation within genres
       
        9 Afterword: applying the model
         
      Appendix I Texts used in the study
      Appendix II Linguistic features: algorithms and functions
      Appendix III Mean frequency counts of all linguistic features in each genre
      Appendix IV Pearson correlation coefficients for all linguistic feature

      References
      Index



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      Cambridge University Press
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