University Language: A corpus-based study of spoken and written registers (Studies in Corpus Linguistics)

University students must cope with a bewildering array of registers, not only to learn academic content, but also to understand course expectations and requirements. While many previous studies have investigated academic writing, we know comparatively little about academic speech; and no linguistic study to date has investigated the range of academic and advising/management registers that students encounter. This book is a first step towards filling this gap. Based on analysis of the T2K-SWAL Corpus, the book describes university registers from several different perspectives, including: vocabu. Douglas Biber. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [229]-239) And Index.