List of figures
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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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