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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Douglas Biber (Northern Arizona University) , Bethany Gray (Iowa State University)Publisher: Cambridge University Press Imprint: Cambridge University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 4.200kg ISBN: 9781108712958ISBN 10: 1108712959 Pages: 291 Publication Date: 21 March 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents1. Academic writing: challenging the stereotypes; 2. Using corpora to analyze grammatical change; 3. Phrasal versus clausal discourse styles: a synchronic grammatical description of academic writing contrasted with other registers; 4. The historical evolution of phrasal discourse styles in academic writing; 5. The functional extension of phrasal grammatical features in academic writing; 6. The loss of explicitness in academic research writing; 7. Conclusion.Reviews'This book is most useful for linguists or academic scholars interested in language change, textual features (especially as those features intersect with communicative or social functions), and/or corpus-based research.' Jessie Sams, Linguist List Author InformationDouglas Biber is Regents' Professor of Applied Linguistics in the English Department at Northern Arizona University. Bethany Gray is Assistant Professor of English (Applied Linguistics and Technology) at Iowa State University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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