none 10.1075/scl.103.06neu John Benjamins Publishing Company John Benjamins Publishing Company 1757 131908585 3924540 1420924 202507030822000021 10.1075 2025-07-03T06:23:17Z 2021-11-09T15:39:34Z 8 1388-0373 10.1075/scl https://benjamins.com/ catalog/scl Elena Seoane University of Vigo https://ror.org/05rdf8595 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2680-7182 Douglas Biber Northern Arizona University https://ror.org/0272j5188 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7024-505X As the first collective volume to focus exclusively on corpus-based approaches to register variation, this book provides an exhaustive account of the range and depth of possibilities that the domain of register variation in English has to offer. It illustrates register variation analysis in different theoretical frameworks, such as Probabilistic Grammar, Systemic Functional Linguistics, and Information Theory, and proposes a new framework within the Text Linguistic Approach: the continuous-situational analytical framework. Several of the contributions apply Multi-Dimensional Analysis to corpus data in order to unveil register (dis)similarities, while others rely on logistic regression models and periodization techniques based on Kullback-Leibler divergence. The volume includes both inter-register and intra-register variation analysis of a wide spectrum of varieties, speakers and periods: British and American English, learner varieties, L2 varieties, and also contains diachronic studies covering early and late Modern English. This broad scope should be a source of inspiration for anyone interested in historical and ongoing register variation in a vast range of varieties of English worldwide. 103 12 8 2021 11 9 2021 9789027210548 9789027258458 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam 10.1075/scl.103 http://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027258458 https://www.jbe-platform.com/deliver/fulltext/9789027258458.pdf https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/scl.103/html Stella Neumann RWTH Aachen University https://ror.org/04xfq0f34 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3737-7867 Stefan Evert FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg https://ror.org/00f7hpc57 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4192-2437 Abstract This chapter reports an exploration of dimensions of register variation across varieties of English. We analyse 2,844 texts from the Hong Kong, Jamaica and New Zealand components of the International Corpus of English , using its text categorization scheme as a frame of reference. We apply Geometric Multivariate Analysis, an interactive procedure for exploring latent structure in language variation, based on the frequencies of 41 lexico-grammatical features informed by systemic functional register theory. Visual inspection of the distribution of texts across the multidimensional space reveals continuities between groups of texts as well as dimensions of variation that can be related to theoretical register constructs. 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