This book focuses on aspects of variation and change in language use in spoken and written discourse on the basis of corpus analyses, providing new descriptive

Similarities and differences between speech and writing have been the subject of innumerable studies, but until now there has been no attempt to provide a unifi

Introducing a range of new methods and insights for analysing discourse-pragmatic variation and change, this volume aims to inform future studies in the field.

Like is a ubiquitous feature of English with a deep history in the language, exhibiting regular and constrained variable grammars over time. This volume explore

Variability is characteristic of any living language. This volume approaches the ‘life cycle’ of linguistic variability in English using data sources that r