Douglas Biber
Regents' Professor, Applied linguistics
Office:BAA (Bldg 23) Room 319
(928) 523-9237
Douglas.Biber@nau.edu
DOUGLAS BIBER, Ph.D., (University of Southern California, 1984)
Regents' Professor, Applied linguistics
Special Interests: corpus linguistics, English grammar, discourse analysis, register variation
Education
- Ph.D. 1984 Univ. of Southern California: Linguistics
- Ph.D. 2000 Honorary degree; Univ. of Uppsala, Sweden
Professional Experience
- 1990-present: Northern Arizona University; Applied Linguistics Program;
Regents' Professor since 2000
- 1984 -1990: Asst. Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Southern California
- Visiting Professor/Researcher Appointments: University of Copenhagen, Temple University Japan, Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (Chile), University of Hamburg, University of Zurich, University of Helsinki, University of Uppsala, Norwegian Academy of Arts and Sciences, University of Bergen, University of Stockholm
Selected Books
- Biber, D. 1988. Variation across speech and writing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Biber, D., and E. Finegan (eds.). 1994. Sociolinguistic perspectives on register. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Biber, D. 1995. Dimensions of register variation: A cross-linguistic comparison . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Biber, D., S. Conrad, and R. Reppen. 1998. Corpus Linguistics: Investigating Language Structure and Use. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Biber, D., S. Johansson, G. Leech, S. Conrad, E. Finegan. 1999. The Longman grammar of spoken and written English. London: Longman.
- Conrad, S., and D. Biber (eds.). 2001. Variation in English: Multi-dimensional studies. London: Longman.
- Biber, D., S. Conrad, and G. Leech. 2002. The Longman student grammar of spoken and written English. London: Longman.
- Biber, D. 2006. University language: A corpus-based study of spoken and written registers. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
- Biber, D., U. Connor, and T.A. Upton. 2007. Discourse on the move: Using corpus analysis to describe discourse structure. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Selected Refereed Journal Articles
English for Specific Purposes (2007), Journal of English for Academic Purposes (2006), Corpora (2006),Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (2005), Applied Linguistics (2004, 1994), Journal of Historical Pragmatics (2003), TESOL Quarterly (2001, 2002, 2003), Studies in Second Language Acquisition (2002), Journal of Child Language (2002), Journal of English Linguistics (2000), Discourse Studies (1999), International Journal of Corpus Linguistics (1996), Text (1995, 1991, 1989), Literary and Linguistic Computing (1993, 1990), Computational Linguistics (1993a, 1993b), Computers and the Humanities (1993), Language Variation and Change (1992), Discourse Processes (1992, 1988), Linguistics (1989, 1985), Language (1989, 1986), American Speech (1987)
Externally Funded Grants
- 1988-1992.
National Science Foundation. Register variation in Somali. - 1990-1993.
National Science Foundation. The ARCHER project:
Historical register variation in English. - 1993-1998.
Addison-Wesley/Longman.
Corpus-based analysis of grammar in English registers. - 1998-2002.
Educational Testing Service.
Construction and analysis of a corpus of university spoken and written registers. - 2002-2005.
National Science Foundation. Register variation in Spanish.
2007.
Educational Testing Service. The effectiveness of feedback for individual writing development: A meta-analysis.