Sociolinguistic Perspectives On Register

Author : Douglas Biber,Edward Finegan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1994-01-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195359329

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Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Register by Douglas Biber,Edward Finegan Pdf

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.

Author : Douglas Biber,Edward Finegan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Register (Linguistics)
ISBN : 019772244X

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Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Register by Douglas Biber,Edward Finegan Pdf

A collection of research papers on variation in language according to the occasion of use, which is variously known as register, register variation or style variation. The contributors aim to point the way towards a unified approach to the subject.

Author : Charles Albert Ferguson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Sociolinguistics
ISBN : 9780195092912

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Sociolinguistic Perspectives by Charles Albert Ferguson Pdf

The work of the linguist Charles A. Ferguson spans more than three decades, and is remarkable for having been consistently at the forefront of scholarship on the relationship between language and society. This volume collects his most influential and seminal papers, each having expanded the parameters of sociolinguistics and the sociology of language. Taken together, they cover a wide range of topics and issues, and, more importantly, reflect the intellectual progress of a founder of the sociolinguistic field. The volume is divided thematically into four sections, and an introduction by Thom Huebner outlines the evolution of Ferguson's ideas and the impact they have had on other scholars. This book is essential reading for everyone interested in the field of sociolinguistics.

Author : Charles A. Ferguson Professor of Linguistics Stanford University (Emeritus)
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1996-01-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198025313

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Sociolinguistic Perspectives : Papers on Language in Society, 1959-1994 by Charles A. Ferguson Professor of Linguistics Stanford University (Emeritus) Pdf

The work of the linguist Charles A. Ferguson spans more than three decades, and is remarkable for having been consistently at the forefront of scholarship on the relationship between language and society. This volume collects his most influential and seminal papers, each having expanded the parameters of sociolinguistics and the sociology of language. Taken together, they cover a wide range of topics and issues, and, more importantly, reflect the intellectual progress of a founder of the sociolinguistic field. The volume is divided thematically into four sections, and an introduction by Thom Huebner outlines the evolution of Ferguson's ideas and the impact they have had on other scholars. This book is essential reading for everyone interested in the field of sociolinguistics.

Author : Douglas Biber,Susan Conrad
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521860604

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Register, Genre, and Style by Douglas Biber,Susan Conrad Pdf

This book describes the most important kinds of texts in English and introduces the methodological techniques used to analyse them. Three analytical approaches are introduced and compared, describing a wide range of texts from the perspectives of register, genre and style. The primary focus of the book is on the analysis of registers. Part 1 introduces an analytical framework for studying registers, genre conventions, and styles. Part 2 provides detailed descriptions of particular text varieties in English, including spoken interpersonal varieties (conversation, university office hours, service encounters), written varieties (newspapers, academic prose, fiction), and emerging electronic varieties (e-mail, internet forums, text messages). Finally, Part 3 introduces advanced analytical approaches using corpora, and discusses theoretical concerns, such as the place of register studies in linguistics, and practical applications of register analysis. Each chapter ends with three types of activities: reflection and review activities, analysis activities, and larger project ideas.

Author : Charles A. Ferguson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1996-02-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195357707

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Sociolinguistic Perspectives by Charles A. Ferguson Pdf

The work of the linguist Charles A. Ferguson spans more than three decades, and is remarkable for having been consistently at the forefront of scholarship on the relationship between language and society. This volume collects his most influential and seminal papers, each having expanded the parameters of sociolinguistics and the sociology of language. Taken together, they cover a wide range of topics and issues, and, more importantly, reflect the intellectual progress of a founder of the sociolinguistic field. The volume is divided thematically into four sections, and an introduction by Thom Huebner outlines the evolution of Ferguson's ideas and the impact they have had on other scholars. This book is essential reading for everyone interested in the field of sociolinguistics.

Author : Penelope Eckert,John R. Rickford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521597897

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Style and Sociolinguistic Variation by Penelope Eckert,John R. Rickford Pdf

This study of sociolinguistic variation examines the relation between social identity and ways of speaking. Studying variations in language not only reveals a great deal about speakers' strategies with respect to variables such as social class, gender, ethnicity and age, it also affords us the opportunity to observe linguistic change in progress. The volume brings together leading experts from a range of disciplines to create a broad perspective on the study of style and variation. Beginning with an introduction to theoretical issues, the book goes on to discuss key approaches to stylistic variation in spoken language, including such issues as attention paid to speech, audience design, identity construction, the corpus study of register, genre, distinctiveness and the anthropological study of style. Rigorous and engaging, this book will become the standard work on stylistic variation. It will be welcomed by students and academics in sociolinguistics, English language, dialectology, anthropology and sociology.

Author : Douglas Biber,Jesse Egbert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-23
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781107122161

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Register Variation on the Web by Douglas Biber,Jesse Egbert Pdf

Explores and provides situational and linguistic descriptions of the full range of registers found on the searchable web.

Author : Kirk Belnap,Niloofar Haeri
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004348578

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Structuralist Studies in Arabic Linguistics by Kirk Belnap,Niloofar Haeri Pdf

Containing Charles Ferguson's papers on Arabic linguistics, this volume addresses issues of continuing concern in phonology, syntax, historical linguistics, and sociolinguistics. The introduction provides a biographical sketch, including excerpts from interviews with Ferguson in which he discusses his career and dealings with Arabic. A critical overview precedes each of the four sections (Diachronica, Phonology, Register and Genre, and General). This work fills an important gap in the history of linguistics in documenting much of the career and contributions of a formative figure in American linguistics. In addition to updating Ferguson's articles, the volume preserves Ferguson's reflections on the events, personalities, relationships, and issues at the time he wrote the articles, as well as on subsequent developments. A unique and fascinating picture of a pioneer linguist.

Author : Markus Rheindorf,Ruth Wodak
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781788924696

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Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Migration Control by Markus Rheindorf,Ruth Wodak Pdf

In the midst of an international crisis in migration policy – widely referred to as a ‘refugee crisis’ – this book brings together timely analyses of the manifold and yet specific ways in which migration affects globalized societies, set against the background of the rise of nationalist and populist movements. The voices of migrants and refugees are rarely heard in this context: usually, they are debated about, summarized and reported but their agency is denied. Each contribution to this volume adds an empirical perspective to our understanding of how language relates to migration in a specific national context. The chapters use innovative combinations of multimodal, qualitative and quantitative analyses to examine a broad range of genres and data related to the voices of migrants and reporting about migrants.

Author : Juan Manuel Hernández-Campoy,Juan Antonio Cutillas-Espinosa
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027274878

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Style-Shifting in Public by Juan Manuel Hernández-Campoy,Juan Antonio Cutillas-Espinosa Pdf

Language acts are acts of identity, and linguistic variation reflects the multifaceted construction of verbal alternatives for transmitting social meaning, where style-shifting represents our ability to take up different social positions due to its potential for linguistic performance, rhetorical stance-taking and identity projection.Traditional variationist conceptualizations of style-shifting as a primarily responsive phenomenon seem unable to account for all stylistic choices. In contrast, more recent formulations see stylistic variation as initiative, creative and strategic in personal and interpersonal identity construction and projection, making a significant contribution to our understanding of this aspect of sociolinguistic variation. In this volume social constructivist approaches to style-shifting are further developed by bringing together research which suggests that people make stylistic choices aimed at conveying (and achieving) a particular social categorization, sociolinguistic meaning, and/or to project a specific positioning in society. Therefore, there is a need, we collectively argue, to adopt permeable and flexible multidimensional, multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to speaker agency that take into consideration not only reactive but also proactive motivations for stylistic variation, and where individuals – rather than groups – and their strategies are the main focus when examining style-shifting in public. This book will be of interest to advanced students and academics in the areas of sociolinguistics, dialectology, social psychology, anthropology and sociology.

Author : Terry Janzen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 902721669X

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Topics in Signed Language Interpreting by Terry Janzen Pdf

LC number: 2005050067

Author : Katarzyna Wąsala
Publisher : V&R Unipress
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783847016380

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Modern Spoken Persian in Contemporary Iranian Novels by Katarzyna Wąsala Pdf

One of the characteristic features of the linguistic situation of contemporary Iran is the coexistence of two standards of Modern Persian: the written and the spoken. While literature is generally composed in the written variety, the typically "spoken" forms are also to be found in the literary text. Modern spoken Persian in Contemporary Iranian Novels is a study of these. A scrutinous analysis of five carefully selected novels with methods drawing mostly from the register analysis seeks answers to questions such as: what features are characteristic to the spoken variety of language, how are they woven into the literary language, does the relationship between spoken and written registers change over time and how can this process affect the future development of Persian language?

Author : Elena Seoane,Douglas Biber
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027258458

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Corpus-based Approaches to Register Variation by Elena Seoane,Douglas Biber Pdf

As the first collective volume to focus exclusively on corpus-based approaches to register variation, this book provides an exhaustive account of the range and depth of possibilities that the domain of register variation in English has to offer. It illustrates register variation analysis in different theoretical frameworks, such as Probabilistic Grammar, Systemic Functional Linguistics, and Information Theory, and proposes a new framework within the Text Linguistic Approach: the continuous-situational analytical framework. Several of the contributions apply Multi-Dimensional Analysis to corpus data in order to unveil register (dis)similarities, while others rely on logistic regression models and periodization techniques based on Kullback-Leibler divergence. The volume includes both inter-register and intra-register variation analysis of a wide spectrum of varieties, speakers and periods: British and American English, learner varieties, L2 varieties, and also contains diachronic studies covering early and late Modern English. This broad scope should be a source of inspiration for anyone interested in historical and ongoing register variation in a vast range of varieties of English worldwide.

Author : Mohammad Ali Salmani Nodoushan
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781329204775

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International Journal of Language Studies (IJLS) – volume 9(3) by Mohammad Ali Salmani Nodoushan Pdf