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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 linguist...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford University Press,
1994.
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| Colección: | Oxford studies in sociolinguistics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.