I think the standard work, really the foundational work, on that subject
is Biber's Variation across Speech and Writing (Cambridge 1988).  It's a
bit technical, but it's rewarding reading and does detailed,
corpus-based and statistically supported correlations of genre and
lexico-grammatical features.

Herb

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From: Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Crow, John T
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 12:12 PM
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Subject: Genres

Does anybody out there have a good source that relates genres to
grammatical structures and techniques?  For example, movie reviews are
an excellent place to work with appositives (The main character, a
15-year-old boy from Mississippi, . . .).

Thanks in advance,
John

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