Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The comprehensive analysis of register variation
- 3 Sociocultural description of the four language situations
- 4 The linguistic bases of cross-linguistic register comparisons: a detailed quantitative comparison of English and Somali registers
- 5 Methodology
- 6 Multi-Dimensional analyses of the four languages
- 7 Cross-linguistic patterns of register variation: synchronic similarities and differences
- 8 Cross-linguistic patterns of register variation: diachronic similarities and differences
- 9 Registers and text types in English and Somali
- 10 Towards cross-linguistic universals of register variation
- Appendix I Grammatical description of linguistic features in Korean. Yong-Jin Kim
- Appendix II Grammatical description of linguistic features in Somali. With Mohamed Hared
- Notes
- References
- Index
Acknowledgments
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2009
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The comprehensive analysis of register variation
- 3 Sociocultural description of the four language situations
- 4 The linguistic bases of cross-linguistic register comparisons: a detailed quantitative comparison of English and Somali registers
- 5 Methodology
- 6 Multi-Dimensional analyses of the four languages
- 7 Cross-linguistic patterns of register variation: synchronic similarities and differences
- 8 Cross-linguistic patterns of register variation: diachronic similarities and differences
- 9 Registers and text types in English and Somali
- 10 Towards cross-linguistic universals of register variation
- Appendix I Grammatical description of linguistic features in Korean. Yong-Jin Kim
- Appendix II Grammatical description of linguistic features in Somali. With Mohamed Hared
- Notes
- References
- Index
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- Dimensions of Register VariationA Cross-Linguistic Comparison, pp. xv - xviPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1995