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Titolo: | Sociolinguistic perspectives on register [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Douglas Biber, Edward Finegan |
Pubblicazione: | New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 1994 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (x, 385 pages) |
Disciplina: | 306.4/4 |
Soggetto topico: | Register (Linguistics) |
Sociolinguistics | |
Altri autori: | BiberDouglas FineganEdward <1940-> |
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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Sociolinguistic perspectives on register |
ISBN: | 0-19-772244-X |
1-280-44358-8 | |
1-4237-3885-3 | |
0-19-535932-1 | |
1-60129-938-9 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910783365103321 |
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