Understanding register: 5 basic references

 

Biber, D., Johansson, S., Leech, G., Conrad, S., & Finegan, E. (1999). Longman grammar of spoken and written language. Harlow: Longman.

Biber, D., & Conrad, S. (2009). Register, genre, and style. Cambridge University Press.

Biber, D., Conrad, S., & Cortes, V. (2004). If you look at…: Lexical bundles in university teaching and textbooks. Applied linguistics, 25(3), 371-405.

Biber, D., & Gray, B. (2015). Grammatical complexity in academic English: Linguistic change in writing. Cambridge University Press.

Biber, D., Egbert, J., & Davies, M. (2015). Exploring the composition of the searchable web: a corpus-based taxonomy of web registers. Corpora, 10(1), 11-45.