03540nam 2200649Ia 450 991045045340332120200520144314.01-280-44358-81-4237-3885-30-19-535932-11-60129-938-9(CKB)1000000000028701(EBL)241649(OCoLC)475957649(SSID)ssj0000247913(PQKBManifestationID)11208700(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000247913(PQKBWorkID)10199835(PQKB)11767521(MiAaPQ)EBC241649(MiAaPQ)EBC4701072(Au-PeEL)EBL241649(CaPaEBR)ebr10087524(OCoLC)935227430(EXLCZ)99100000000002870119921202d1994 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierSociolinguistic perspectives on register[electronic resource] /edited by Douglas Biber, Edward FineganNew York ;Oxford Oxford University Press19941 online resource (x, 385 pages)Oxford studies in sociolinguisticsDescription based upon print version of record.0-19-508364-4 Includes bibliographical references.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 Korean8. 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 ResearchThis 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 studiesOxford studies in sociolinguistics.Register (Linguistics)SociolinguisticsElectronic books.Register (Linguistics)Sociolinguistics.306.4/4Biber Douglas168125Finegan Edward1940-451333MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910450453403321Sociolinguistic perspectives on register2471458UNINA