Similarities and differences between speech and writing have been the subject of innumerable studies, but until now there has been no attempt to provide a unifi

Similarities and differences between speech and writing have been the subject of innumerable studies, but until now there has been no attempt to provide a unifi

Douglas Biber's new book extends and refines the research and methodology reported in his ground breaking Variation Across Speech and Writing (CUP 1988). In Dim

Studies in Language and Linguistics General Editors- Geoffrey Leech, Department of Modern English Language, Lancaster University and Jenny Thomas, School of Eng