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Biber, Douglas – 1995
This text provides a linguistic analysis of discourse register in English, Nukulaelae Tuvaluan, Korean, and Somali, using a multi-dimensional analytical framework and including sociocultural descriptions. Methodology included a description of the text corpora, linguistic features, and computational/statistical techniques used; theoretical issues…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Communicative Competence (Languages), Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics