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Register, Genre, and Style (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics)

Register, Genre, and Style (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics)

by Douglas Biber (Author), Douglas Biber (Author), Susan Conrad (Author)

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    Paperback 2019

    $39.36
Synopsis

A fully updated and expanded second edition of this flagship work, which introduces methodological techniques to carry out analyses of text varieties, and provides descriptions of the most important text varieties in English. Part I introduces an analytical framework for studying registers, genre conventions, and styles, while Part II provides more detailed corpus-based descriptions of text varieties in English, including spoken interpersonal varieties, general and professional written varieties and emerging electronic varieties. Part III introduces more advanced analytical approaches and deals with larger theoretical concerns, such as the relationship between register studies and other sub-disciplines of linguistics, and practical applications of register analysis. A new chapter on EAP and ESP has been added, with new sections on the important differences between academic writing in the humanities and sciences, and a case study on engineering reports as an ESP register and genre. Coverage of new electronic registers has been updated, and a new analysis of hybrid registers has been added.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 420
 Edition: 2
 Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 31 May 2019
ISBN 10: 1108444083
ISBN 13: 9781108444088
Book Overview: A brand new edition of this flagship work, that provides detailed descriptions of important text varieties in English along with methodological techniques to carry out analyses.

Media Reviews
Advance praise: 'This book is an excellent discourse analysis resource for both students and professionals from all research orientations. It includes very detailed frameworks for situational, linguistic, and functional analyses of variation.' Viviana Cortes, Georgia State University
Advance praise: `This book is an excellent discourse analysis resource for both students and professionals from all research orientations. It includes very detailed frameworks for situational, linguistic, and functional analyses of variation.' Viviana Cortes, Georgia State University
Author Bio
Douglas Biber is Regents' Professor of English (Applied Linguistics) at Northern Arizona University. His research efforts have focused on corpus linguistics, English grammar, and register variation. He has published over 220 research articles and 24 books including Variation across Speech and Writing (Cambridge, 1988), Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English (1999), and The Cambridge Handbook of English Corpus Linguistics (Cambridge, 2015). Susan Conrad is Professor of Applied Linguistics at Portland State University. Her research investigates how people vary their grammar, vocabulary, and organization to fulfil different purposes. Her work has appeared in diverse journals, from the Journal of Engineering Education to Register Studies. Her previous books include Real Grammar: A Corpus-Based Approach to English (2009) and Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English (1999) among others.