{"id":10897,"date":"2025-09-22T14:59:45","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T12:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uni-freiburg.de\/frias\/?p=10897"},"modified":"2025-09-22T14:59:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T12:59:45","slug":"prof-douglas-biber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uni-freiburg.de\/frias\/prof-douglas-biber\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Douglas Biber"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Northern Arizona University
English and Applied Linguistics<\/p>\n\n\n\n

External Senior Fellow (FRIAS School of Language & Literature)
November 2008 – December 2008<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Curriculum Vitae<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Douglas\u00a0Biber\u00a0is currently Regents\u2019 Professor in the Applied Linguistics Program (English Department) at Northern Arizona University.\u00a0 He received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Southern California in 1984, and was awarded an Honorary Ph.D. from the University of Uppsala in 2000.\u00a0 Since 1990, he has spent time as a visiting professor at numerous universities around the world, including the Universities of Copenhagen, Hamburg, Zurich, Helsinki, Uppsala, Bergen, Stockholm, Temple University Japan, Universidad Cat\u00f3lica de Valpara\u00edso (Chile), Michigan State University (LSA Summer Institute), and the Norwegian Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Biber\u00a0has published 11 authored and co-authored books, with Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Longman, and John Benjamins.\u00a0 In addition, he has published 5 edited books and monographs, and over 150 journal articles and book chapters.\u00a0 These studies have addressed a wide range of issues in corpus linguistics, English grammar, and register variation (in English and cross-linguistic; synchronic and diachronic).\u00a0 Research articles have appeared in numerous research journals, including Corpora, Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, Applied Linguistics, Journal of Historical Pragmatics, Journal of English Linguistics, Discourse Studies, International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, Text, Literary and Linguistic Computing, Computational Linguistics, Language Variation and Change, Discourse Processes, Linguistics, Language, and American Speech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • Biber, D.\u00a01988.\u00a0Variation across speech and writing<\/em>.\u00a0Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Biber, D.\u00a01995.\u00a0Dimensions of register variation:\u00a0A cross-linguistic comparison<\/em>.\u00a0Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Biber, D., S. Conrad, and R. Reppen.\u00a01998.\u00a0Corpus linguistics:\u00a0Investigating language structure and use<\/em>.\u00a0Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Biber, D., S. Johansson, G. Leech, S. Conrad, E. Finegan.\u00a01999.\u00a0The Longman grammar of spoken and written English<\/em>.\u00a0London:\u00a0Longman.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Biber, D.\u00a02006.\u00a0University<\/em>\u00a0language:\u00a0A corpus-based study of spoken and written registers<\/em>.\u00a0Amsterdam:\u00a0John Benjamins.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Biber, D., U. Connor, and T.A. Upton.\u00a02007.\u00a0Discourse on the move:\u00a0Using corpus analysis to describe discourse structure<\/em>.\u00a0Amsterdam:\u00a0John Benjamins.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Biber, D., and S. Conrad.\u00a0In press.\u00a0Register and genre variation<\/em>.\u00a0Cambridge University Press.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Conrad, S., and D.\u00a0Biber\u00a0(eds.).\u00a02001.\u00a0Variation in English: Multi-Dimensional studies<\/em>.\u00a0London:\u00a0Longman.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n\n\t
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    Developement of Statistical Models for the Description of Linguistic Variation.<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    I will be working on two general research topics during my stay at the Institute. The first concerns the patterns of grammatical\/discourse complexity in English texts and registers. This project has both empirical and theoretical components. The empirical component is focused on documenting the differing ways in which grammatical features are distributed and used in different registers, providing corpus evidence to support the general claim that different registers rely on dramatically different kinds of grammatical complexity. The theoretical component is focused on developing a framework for the measurement and description of grammatical\/discourse complexity which could be applied in studies of language development or textual analysis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The second general research topic is focused on the corpus study of formulaic language, considering the range of expressions and formulaic patterns that are commonly used in a register. For example, the study will apply quantittative methods to determine the extent to which a frequent lexical sequence is fixed or variable, and the extent to which various lexical frames are fixed or variable. Some of the underlying research questions of this project are: to what extent is discourse in English formulaic? to what extent is discourse from particular registers (e.g., conversation or academic writing) formulaic? is discourse in all languages equally formulaic? if not, what are the differences, and how can they be accounted for?<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\t<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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