The register-functional approach to grammatical complexity : theoretical foundation, descriptive research findings, application / Douglas Biber, Bethany Gray, Shelley Staples, Jesse Egbert.

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Book

Author/Creator:

Biber, Douglas, author.

Gray, Bethany, author.

Staples, Shelley, author.

Egbert, Jesse, 1985- author.

Contributor:

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Series:

Routledge advances in corpus linguistics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Complexity (Linguistics).

Register (Linguistics).

Corpora (Linguistics).

English language--Grammar.

English language.

Functionalism (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).

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Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2021.

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Biography/History:

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. Previous books include Register, Genre, and Style (Cambridge, 2009/2019), the co-authored Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English (1999), and studies of grammatical complexity (Cambridge 2016), university registers (Benjamins 2006), and Multi-Dimensional Analyses of register variation (Cambridge 1988, 1995, 2018). Bethany Gray is Associate Professor of English (Applied Linguistics and Technology) at Iowa State University. Her research employs corpus linguistics methodologies to explore register variation, with a focus on academic language. Publications include monographs on academic research articles (John Benjamins 2015), historical change in writing (Cambridge 2016). She is a co-founding editor of Register Studies (John Benjamins). Shelley Staples is Associate Professor of English Applied Linguistics/SLAT at University of Arizona. Her research focuses on corpus analysis, particularly for applications to language learning/teaching. Publications include a monograph (John Benjamins) and edited volume (Palgrave) on healthcare discourse and articles in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, English for Specific Purposes, Applied Linguistics, and TESOL Quarterly. Jesse Egbert is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics at Northern Arizona University. He specializes in register variation, corpus linguistics, and quantitative research methods. He is a General Editor of Register Studies. Two of his recent books focus on online register variation (Cambridge 2018) and corpus linguistics methods (Cambridge 2020).

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9781003087991

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