Discourse Studies | 2019
Book review: Jarmila Mildorf and Bronwen Thomas (eds), Dialogue across Media
Abstract
Despite the convincing elaboration in this study, there remains some room for further research. First, comparing the research findings with findings from a similar analysis of oral variations would be a worthwhile extension, which would also make up for the limited variety of oral documents in the study. Second, the hybrid registers, which occupy one-third of the corpus, deserve more attention; however, only three dimensions were discussed in the exploration of these complex hybrids. Overall, this monograph is impressive in extracting multi-dimensions to account for the register variation on the Web. Given its persuasive elaboration and innovative insights, this monograph is an invaluable asset for researchers and students in register variation, discourse analysis, corpus linguistics and other related studies.