Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Register.
Title:
Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Register.
Author:
Finegan, Edward.
ISBN:
9781601299383
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (398 pages)
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.
Abstract:
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 of registers and register variation published to date, adopting both synchronic and diachronic perspectives.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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