Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Register
This collection brings together several perspectives on language varieties defined according to their contexts of use--what are variously called registers, sublanguages, or genres. The volume highlights the importance of these central linguistic phenomena; it includes empirical analyses and linguistic descriptions, as well as explanations for existing patterns of variation and proposals for theoretical frameworks. The book treats languages in obsolescence and in their youth; it examines registe…
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This collection brings together several perspectives on language varieties defined according to their contexts of use--what are variously called registers, sublanguages, or genres. The volume highlights the importance of these central linguistic phenomena; it includes empirical analyses and linguistic descriptions, as well as explanations for existing patterns of variation and proposals for theoretical frameworks. The book treats languages in obsolescence and in their youth; it examines registers from languages from around the globe; and it offers several of the most complete studies of registers and register variation published to date, adopting both synchronic and diachronic perspectives.
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- Publication Date:1994.
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- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:Cary
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1994.
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14. Register: A Review of Empirical Research.
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- Description:1 online resource (398 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780195359329, 0195359321
- oclc:ocn935227430
- LC Classification:P302.815.S65 1994
- Dewey Decimal:306.4/4
Table of Contents
Contributors; Introduction: Situating Register in Sociolinguistics; Part I: General Issues; 1. Dialect, Register, and Genre: Working Assumptions About Conventionalization; 2. An Analytical Framework for Register studies; Part II: Individual Registers; 3. On the creation and Expansion of Registers: Sports Reporting in Tok Pisin; 4. Shared Thinking and the Register of Coaching; 5. Stories That Step into the Future; 6. Me Tarzan, You Jane: Linguistic Simplification in ""Personal Ads"" Register; Part III: Register Variation; 7. A Corpus-Based Analysis of Register Variation in Korean.
8. Linguistic Correlates of the Transition to Literacy in Somali: Language Adaptation in Six Press Registers9. Stylistic Variation in a Language Restricted to Private-Sphere Use; Part IV: Registers, Social Dialects, and Sociolinguistic Theory; 10. Addressee- and Topic-Influenced Style Shift: A Quantitative Sociolinguistic Study; 11. Situational Variation in Children's Language Revisited; 12. Diglossia as a Special Case of Register Variation; 13. Register and Social Dialect Variation: An Integrated Approach; Part V: A Survey of Empirical Register Studies.
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