@inbook{b3c2bb20bd9d49c58a0c7070351cad23,
title = "Orality on the searchable web: A comparison of involved web registers and face-to-face conversation",
abstract = "As Culpeper and Kyt{\"o} (2010) discuss, one challenge of historical linguistics is the extent to which written texts represent the linguistic characteristics of speech. Synchronic linguists face similar challenges, leading to the practice of using a web corpus to represent the spectrum of oral-literate registers. However, there has been little research that tests the validity of this practice. The present chapter begins by summarizing the patterns of register variation on the searchable web documented in Biber and Egbert (2018). While that study documents the importance of oral-literate linguistic dimensions, it does not investigate whether involved web registers represent the linguistic characteristics of spoken registers. We explore that research question here, comparing the multi-dimensional profiles of online registers and spoken conversation.",
keywords = "Conversation, Involvement, Multi-Dimensional analysis, Orality, Web registers",
author = "Douglas Biber and Jesse Egbert",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020 John Benjamins Publishing Company. All rights reserved.",
year = "2020",
doi = "10.1075/scl.97.19bib",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Studies in Corpus Linguistics",
publisher = "John Benjamins Publishing Company",
pages = "317--336",
editor = "Ewa Jonsson and Tove Larsson",
booktitle = "Voices Past and Present � Studies of Involved, Speech-related and Spoken Texts. In honor of Merja Kyt�",
address = "Netherlands",
}