Sociolinguistic Perspectives on RegisterDouglas Biber, Edward Finegan 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. |
Contents
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General Issues | 13 |
Individual Registers | 57 |
Register Variation | 155 |
Registers Social Dialects and Sociolinguistic Theory | 233 |
A Survey of Empirical Register Studies | 349 |
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