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Sociolinguistic perspectives on register / edited by Douglas Biber, Edward Finegan.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Oxford studies in sociolinguistics.
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford studies in sociolinguistics
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Register (Linguistics).
- Sociolinguistics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 385 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A collection of research papers on variation in language according to the occasion of use, which is variously known as register, register variation or style variation. The contributors aim to point the way towards a unified approach to the subject.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 1994.
- Includes bibliographies.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-772244-X
- 1-280-44358-8
- 1-4237-3885-3
- 0-19-535932-1
- 1-60129-938-9
- OCLC:
- 475957649
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