Register Variation: A Corpus Approach

The Handbook of Discourse Analysis

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 175-196

  Biber, Douglas ^a   Conrad, Susan ^b  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Advertising; Communication; Ethnography; Linguistic; Textual environment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948774551     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470753460.ch10     Document Type: Chapter

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