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Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Register

By: Douglas Biber (Editor), Edward Finegan (Editor)

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Hardcover | 13 January 1994

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The guiding idea of this collection is to bring together a number of different perspectives on variation in language according to occasion of use. At present this is a rather ill-defined field of interest sometimes referred to as style variation and sometimes as register variation. This area has not figured as prominently in sociolinguistics as certain and other aspects of variation (social dialect variation in particular). This volume draws attention to the importance of this ubiquitous linguistic phenomenon and points the way to a unified approach. Biber and Finegan have solicited studies presenting a variety of perspectives on registers and register variation, as well as papers that attempt to integrate register and social dialect variation into a coherent theoretical framework.

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"[A] significant collection....The book has succeeded admirably....An invaluable resource for those concerned with the socially situated side of language, whether it concerns dialect variation, interlanguage, or any other type of variation within language. This collection is a significant and useful contribution to sociolinguisics that is worthy of a `must read' designation."--Studies in Second Language Acquisition "Biber's studies raise a major methodological issue which has considerable ramifications for the view we take of language....A well-presented book."--Language in Society "[A] significant collection....The book has succeeded admirably....An invaluable resource for those concerned with the socially situated side of language, whether it concerns dialect variation, interlanguage, or any other type of variation within language. This collection is a significant and useful contribution to sociolinguisics that is worthy of a `must read' designation."--Studies in Second Language Acquisition "Biber's studies raise a major methodological issue which has considerable ramifications for the view we take of language....A well-presented book."--Language in Society

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Non-Fiction Language & Linguistics Linguistics Sociolinguistics Semantics & Discourse Analysis Politics & Government International Relations

Contributors	p. xi
Introduction: Situating Register in Sociolinguistics	p. 3
General Issues
Dialect, Register, and Genre: Working Assumptions About Conventionalization	p. 15
An Analytical Framework for Register Studies	p. 31
Individual Registers
On the Creation and Expansion of Registers: Sports Reporting in Tok Pisin	p. 59
Shared Thinking and the Register of Coaching	p. 82
Stories That Step into the Future	p. 106
Me Tarzan, You Jane: Linguistic Simplification in "Personal Ads" Register	p. 136
Register Variation
A Corpus-Based Analysis of Register Variation in Korean	p. 157
Linguistic Correlates of the Transition to Literacy in Somali: Language Adaptation in Six Press Registers	p. 182
Stylistic Variation in a Language Restricted to Private-Sphere Use	p. 217
Registers, Social Dialects, and Sociolinguistic Theory
Addressee- and Topic-Influenced Style Shift: A Quantitative Sociolinguistic Study	p. 235
Situational Variation in Children's Language Revisited	p. 277
Diglossia as a Special Case of Register Variation	p. 294
Register and Social Dialect Variation: An Integrated Approach	p. 315
A Survey of Empirical Register Studies
Register: A Review of Empirical Research	p. 351
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