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Overview

Douglas Biber is affiliated with Northern Arizona University in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines, with primary contributions in Computer Science, Arts and Humanities, and Psychology. Within these broader fields, Biber specializes notably in Artificial Intelligence, Literature and Literary Theory, Language and Linguistics, Developmental and Educational Psychology, and Linguistics and Language.

Their main research topics include Natural Language Processing Techniques, Discourse Analysis in Language Studies, Second Language Acquisition and Learning, Linguistic Variation and Morphology, Text Readability and Simplification, Authorship Attribution and Profiling, and Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies.

Douglas Biber has published research papers in several academic venues, including:

  • Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory
  • Journal of English for Academic Purposes
  • International Journal of Learner Corpus Research
  • International Journal of Corpus Linguistics
  • Corpora

Some recent publications are:

  • "Investigating grammatical complexity in L2 English writing research: Linguistic description versus predictive measurement" (2020), Journal of English for Academic Purposes
  • "Reconceptualizing register in a continuous situational space" (2020), Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory
  • "Towards a taxonomy of conversational discourse types: An empirical corpus-based analysis" (2020), Journal of Pragmatics
  • "What is a register?" (2023), Register Studies
  • "Exploring the longitudinal development of grammatical complexity in the disciplinary writing of L2-English university students" (2020), International Journal of Learner Corpus Research

Biber has coauthored extensively with other researchers, including Jesse Egbert, Bethany Gray, Tove Larsson, Randi Reppen, and Anna María Escobar.

Their book publications have appeared with prominent academic publishers:

  • Doing Linguistics with a Corpus (2020), Cambridge University Press
  • Designing and Evaluating Language Corpora (2022), Cambridge University Press
  • Grammar of Spoken and Written English (2020), John Benjamins Publishing Company

Best Publications

  • Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English

    Douglas Biber;Randolph Quirk

  • Grammar of Spoken and Written English

    Douglas Biber;Stig Johansson;Geoffrey N. Leech;Susan Conrad

  • Variation across Speech and Writing

    Douglas Biber

  • Corpus Linguistics: Investigating Language Structure and Use

    Douglas Biber;Susan Conrad;Randi Reppen

  • Register, Genre, and Style

    Douglas Biber;Susan Conrad

  • Dimensions of Register Variation: A Cross-Linguistic Comparison

    Douglas Biber

  • Representativeness in corpus design

    Douglas Biber

  • If you look at …: Lexical Bundles in University Teaching and Textbooks

    Douglas Biber;Susan Conrad;Viviana Cortes

  • University Language: A corpus-based study of spoken and written registers

    Douglas Biber

  • Styles of stance in English: Lexical and grammatical marking of evidentiality and affect

    Douglas Biber;Edward Finegan

  • Corpus linguistics: Summing up and looking ahead

    Douglas Biber;Susan Conrad;Randi Reppen

  • Lexical bundles in university spoken and written registers

    Douglas Biber;Federica Barbieri

  • Discourse on the move

    Douglas Biber;Ulla Connor;Thomas A. Upton

  • A typology of English texts

    Douglas Biber

  • Spoken and Written Textual Dimensions in English: Resolving the Contradictory Findings

    Douglas Biber

  • Adverbial stance types in English

    Douglas Biber;Edward Finegan

  • Should we use characteristics of conversation to measure grammatical complexity in L2 writing development

    Douglas Biber;Bethany Gray;Kornwipa Poonpon

  • Challenging stereotypes about academic writing: Complexity, elaboration, explicitness

    Douglas Biber;Bethany Gray

  • Stance in spoken and written university registers

    Douglas Biber

  • A corpus-driven approach to formulaic language in English: multi-word patterns in speech and writing

    Douglas Biber

  • Strategies of Discourse Comprehension

    Douglas Biber;Teun A. van Dijk;Walter Kintsch

  • Dimensions of Register Variation

    Douglas Biber

Frequent Co-Authors

Geoffrey Leech
Geoffrey Leech Lancaster University
Teun A. van Dijk
Teun A. van Dijk Pompeu Fabra University
William Grabe
William Grabe Northern Arizona University
Walter Kintsch
Walter Kintsch University of Colorado Boulder

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