Multi-dimensional Analysis, 25 Years On: A Tribute To Douglas Biber (studies In Corpus Linguistics)
by Tony Berber Sardinha /
2014 / English / PDF
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Approximately a quarter of a century ago, the Multi-Dimensional (MD) approachone of the most powerful (and controversial) methods in Corpus Linguisticssaw its first book-length treatment. In its eleven chapters, this volume presents all new contributions covering a wide range of written and spoken registers, such as movies, music, magazine texts, student writing, social media, letters to the editor, and reports, in different languages (English, Spanish, Portuguese) and contexts (engineering, journalism, the classroom, the entertainment industry, the Internet, etc.). The book also includes a personal account of the development of the method by its creator, Doug Biber, an introduction to MD statistics, as well as an application of MD analysis to corpus design. The book should be essential reading to anyone with an t in how texts, genres, and registers are used in society, what their lexis and grammar look like, and how they are interrelated.
