ABSTRACT
This chapter considers what the multidimensional model reveals about variation between the journals in BEE4. It addresses the question of variation within each journal by looking at the results of clustering the texts by their MD linguistic profiles. Multidimensional Analysis is an approach that was developed by D. Biber to describe the characteristic features of different registers by quantifying the occurrences of a wide range of linguistic features within a corpus. Multidimensional Analysis was developed in order to identify differences between spoken and written registers. The value of the box-and-whisker plots is that they indicate linguistic profile variation within each journal. It is helpful to think of a constellation as having the potential to be a configuration for a particular kind of article. The set of linguistic features that are tagged and quantified for the purposes of analyses was originally assembled by Biber in the 1980s for the investigation of general language use.
