Grammatical Complexity in Academic English Linguistic Change in Writing |
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| Author:
| Biber, Douglas
Gray, Bethany |
| Series title: | Studies in English Language Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-511-92077-6 |
| Publication Date: | May 2016 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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| Book Format: | Digital (delivered electronically) |
| List Price: | USD $165.00 |
Book Description:
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Richly illustrated throughout with textual analyses, this book challenges widely held beliefs about grammatical complexity, academic writing, and linguistic change in English. This important new work will be of interest to discourse analysts, sociolinguists, and applied linguists, as well as descriptive linguists and historical linguists.
Richly illustrated throughout with textual analyses, this book challenges widely held beliefs about grammatical complexity, academic writing, and linguistic change in English. This important new work will be of interest to discourse analysts, sociolinguists, and applied linguists, as well as descriptive linguists and historical linguists.