Giovanni Parodi is Professor of Linguistics and Psycholinguistics at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso, Chile.

"[In this book] Parodi and company provide English language accounts of their research into Spanish corpora. For the first time readers from around the world who are unable to read Spanish have access to cutting edge studies of a variety of registers in one of the three main languages in the world.  The authors in this volume take their inspiration from Biber's multi-dimensional analysis (MDA).  Of particular interest here is the way in which Spanish factors resonate with and distinguish themselves from co-occurrence patterns in other languages.  Especially rewarding are the insightful discussions of the communicative purposes which motivate factors, drawing on the rich tradition of discourse analysis informing Latin American linguistic theory." Professor J. R. Martin, Department of Linguistics, University of Sydney, Australia

• Chapter I: INTRODUCTION; Chapter II: Variation across registers in Spanish: Exploring El Grial PUCV Corpus; Chapter III: Dimensions of register variation in Spanish; Chapter IV: Epistemic modality and academic spoken discourse: A pilot study for COTECA (Corpus Textual del Espanol Cientifico de la Argentina); Chapter V: Multi-register analysis of prepositional schemes in communication verbs of Spanish; Chapter VI: Spoken and written varieties of future tense expressions. Chapter VII: Technical-professional discourses: Specialized and dissemination text types; Chapter VIII: Academic writing: Exploring Corpus 92; Chapter IX: Using Latent Semantic Analysis in a Spanish research article corpus; Chapter X: Lexical bundles in speech and writing.

Giovanni Parodi is Professor of Linguistics and Psycholinguistics at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso, Chile.

"[In this book] Parodi and company provide English language accounts of their research into Spanish corpora. For the first time readers from around the world who are unable to read Spanish have access to cutting edge studies of a variety of registers in one of the three main languages in the world.  The authors in this volume take their inspiration from Biber's multi-dimensional analysis (MDA).  Of particular interest here is the way in which Spanish factors resonate with and distinguish themselves from co-occurrence patterns in other languages.  Especially rewarding are the insightful discussions of the communicative purposes which motivate factors, drawing on the rich tradition of discourse analysis informing Latin American linguistic theory." Professor J. R. Martin, Department of Linguistics, University of Sydney, Australia

• Chapter I: INTRODUCTION; Chapter II: Variation across registers in Spanish: Exploring El Grial PUCV Corpus; Chapter III: Dimensions of register variation in Spanish; Chapter IV: Epistemic modality and academic spoken discourse: A pilot study for COTECA (Corpus Textual del Espanol Cientifico de la Argentina); Chapter V: Multi-register analysis of prepositional schemes in communication verbs of Spanish; Chapter VI: Spoken and written varieties of future tense expressions. Chapter VII: Technical-professional discourses: Specialized and dissemination text types; Chapter VIII: Academic writing: Exploring Corpus 92; Chapter IX: Using Latent Semantic Analysis in a Spanish research article corpus; Chapter X: Lexical bundles in speech and writing.

Giovanni Parodi is Professor of Linguistics and Psycholinguistics at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso, Chile.

"[In this book] Parodi and company provide English language accounts of their research into Spanish corpora. For the first time readers from around the world who are unable to read Spanish have access to cutting edge studies of a variety of registers in one of the three main languages in the world.  The authors in this volume take their inspiration from Biber's multi-dimensional analysis (MDA).  Of particular interest here is the way in which Spanish factors resonate with and distinguish themselves from co-occurrence patterns in other languages.  Especially rewarding are the insightful discussions of the communicative purposes which motivate factors, drawing on the rich tradition of discourse analysis informing Latin American linguistic theory." Professor J. R. Martin, Department of Linguistics, University of Sydney, Australia

• Chapter I: INTRODUCTION; Chapter II: Variation across registers in Spanish: Exploring El Grial PUCV Corpus; Chapter III: Dimensions of register variation in Spanish; Chapter IV: Epistemic modality and academic spoken discourse: A pilot study for COTECA (Corpus Textual del Espanol Cientifico de la Argentina); Chapter V: Multi-register analysis of prepositional schemes in communication verbs of Spanish; Chapter VI: Spoken and written varieties of future tense expressions. Chapter VII: Technical-professional discourses: Specialized and dissemination text types; Chapter VIII: Academic writing: Exploring Corpus 92; Chapter IX: Using Latent Semantic Analysis in a Spanish research article corpus; Chapter X: Lexical bundles in speech and writing.