Christoph Schubert and Christina Sanchez-Stockhammer (eds.) Variational text linguistics: Revisiting register in English

Crosthwaite, Peter

doi:10.1075/fol.00007.cro

Review published In: Functions of Language
Vol. 25:2 (2018) ► pp.328–334

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Christoph Schubert and Christina Sanchez-Stockhammer (eds.) Variational text linguistics: Revisiting register in English

Reviewed by

Peter Crosthwaite | University of Hong Kong

Published online: 19 October 2018

https://doi.org/10.1075/fol.00007.cro

Article outline

1.Introduction
2.Theme 1: Specialised registers
3.Theme 2: Cross-register comparison
4.Theme 3: Regional, contrastive and diachronic register variation
5.Closing comments
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