Douglas Biber, Edward Finegan's Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Register (Oxford Studies in PDF

By Douglas Biber, Edward Finegan

ISBN-10: 0195083644

ISBN-13: 9780195083644

This assortment brings jointly numerous views on language forms outlined in keeping with their contexts of use--what are variously known as registers, sublanguages, or genres. the amount highlights the significance of those relevant linguistic phenomena; it comprises empirical analyses and linguistic descriptions, in addition to motives for latest styles of version and recommendations for theoretical frameworks. The e-book treats languages in obsolescence and of their formative years; it examines registers from languages from around the world; and it deals numerous of the main whole reviews of registers and sign up version released so far, adopting either synchronic and diachronic views.

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General Characteristics of Register Analyses Typical register studies have three components: description of the situational characteristics of a register, description of the linguistic characteristics, and analysis of the functional or conventional associations between the situational and linguistic features. These are illustrated by the following: SITUATIONAL FEATURES FUNCTIONS and CONVENTIONS LINGUISTIC FORMS Halliday (1978:31) describes this relationship in deterministic and unidirectional terms: Types of linguistic situation differ from one another, broadly speaking, in three respects: first, as regards to what is actually taking place; secondly, as regards what part the language is playing; and thirdly, as regards who is taking part.

An outstanding exception is Biber and Finegan (l989), which follows three English-language genres of written prose from the seventeenth century to the twentieth: fiction (chiefly novels), essays, and personal letters of literary figures. In their analysis Biber and Finegan use a quantified multidimensional approach that makes possible the discovery of a general, overall long-term drift in English style over the four centuries. Before leaving the concept of genre, it is worth pointing out that genres may pass relatively easily from one speech community to another, to the extent that it raises the question of the actual locus of genres.

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