Steve,
There are a couple of works by Douglas Biber that might be useful. They address your question directly. The first is his seminal Variation across Speech and Writing (Cambridge 1992). This is a fairly technical but very detailed and extensive treatment. The other is the more recent is Register, Genre, and Style (Cambridge 2009), co-authored with Susan Conrad. This is in the Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics, and so it might be more accessible, as well as more current.
Good luck!
Herb
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Hi Steve,
The Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English would be a good resource.
One thing I do with my ESL students at the beginning of the semester is to present them with two short essays on the same topic, one written in SPEWD (I love that acronym!) and the other in academic English. Then I ask them to analyze the two essays using a rubric that helps them recognize the differences between the two registers. A revelation for my Gen 1.5ers is realizing that "gonna" is actually "going to."
Terre
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Date: 12/20/2011 06:57 PM
Subject: Spoken vs. formal written English
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Can anyone direct me to a text that focuses, at length, on the differences between spoken and written versions of language? It seems to me that a great many of my community college students, especially those who have been out of school for some time, use a version of English that could be characterized as "Spoken English Written Down." (A colleague suggested the acronym "SPEWD.") I have my own list of those differences, but am looking for other resources. Many thanks in advance!
Steve King
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