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Sociolinguistic perspectives on register /

(Number (ISBN

0195083644

(Number (ISBN

9780195083644

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Sociolinguistic perspectives on register /

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[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Douglas Biber, Edward Finegan.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Oxford :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Oxford University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1994.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

x, 385 p. ;

Dimensions

25 cm.

Series Title

Oxford studies in sociolinguistics

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references.

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Introduction: Situating Register in Sociolinguistics -- 1. Dialect, Register, and Genre: Working Assumptions About Conventionalization / Charles A. Ferguson -- 2. An Analytical Framework for Register Studies / Douglas Biber -- 3. On the Creation and Expansion of Registers: Sports Reporting in Tok Pisin / Suzanne Romaine -- 4. Shared Thinking and the Register of Coaching / Shirley Brice Heath and Juliet Langman -- 5. Stories That Step into the Future / Elinor Ochs -- 6. Me Tarzan, You Jane: Linguistic Simplification in "Personal Ads" Register / Paul Bruthiaux -- 7. A Corpus-Based Analysis of Register Variation in Korean / Yong-Jin Kim and Douglas Biber -- 8. Linguistic Correlates of the Transition to Literacy in Somali: Language Adaptation in Six Press Registers / Douglas Biber and Mohamed Hared -- 9. Stylistic Variation in a Language Restricted to Private-Sphere Use / Nancy C. Dorian -- 10. Addressee- and Topic-Influenced Style Shift: A Quantitative Sociolinguistic Study / John R. Rickford and Faye McNair-Knox -- 11. Situational Variation in Children's Language Revisited / Courtney B. Cazden -- 12. Diglossia as a Special Case of Register Variation / Alan Hudson -- 13. Register and Social Dialect Variation: An Integrated Approach / Edward Finegan and Douglas Biber -- 14. Register: A Review of Empirical Research / Dwight Atkinson and Douglas Biber.

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This collection brings together several perspectives on language varieties defined according to their contexts of use - what are variously called registers, sublanguages, or genres. Highlighting the importance of register variation, the volume includes empirical analyses and linguistic descriptions, as well as explanations for existing patterns of variation and proposals for theoretical frameworks. The authors treat languages in obsolescence and in their youth; examine registers in languages from around the globe; and, adopting both synchronic and diachronic perspectives, studies of registers and register variation published to date.

Register (Linguistics)

Sociolinguistics.

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Biber, Douglas.

Finegan, Edward,1940-

Date of Transaction

20140213085117.0

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