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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450453403321

Titolo

Sociolinguistic perspectives on register [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Douglas Biber, Edward Finegan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 1994

ISBN

1-280-44358-8

1-4237-3885-3

0-19-535932-1

1-60129-938-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 385 pages)

Collana

Oxford studies in sociolinguistics

Altri autori (Persone)

BiberDouglas

FineganEdward <1940->

Disciplina

306.4/4

Soggetti

Register (Linguistics)

Sociolinguistics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Contributors; Introduction: Situating Register in Sociolinguistics; 1. Dialect, Register, and Genre: Working Assumptions About Conventionalization; 2.An Analytical Framework for Register studies; 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; 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 Registers 9. Stylistic Variation in a Language Restricted to Private-Sphere Use; 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; 14. Register: A Review of Empirical Research

Sommario/riassunto

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