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
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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: 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.: 9910450453403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Oxford studies in sociolinguistics.