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Acknowledgements | p. ix |
Registers, genres, and styles: fundamental varieties of language | p. 1 |
Text varieties in your daily life | p. 1 |
Texts, varieties, registers, and dialects | p. 4 |
Registers and register analysis: an overview | p. 6 |
Different perspectives on text varieties: register, genre, style | p. 15 |
Register/genre variation as a linguistic universal | p. 23 |
Overview of the book | p. 25 |
Analytical framework | |
Describing the situational characteristics of registers and genres | p. 31 |
Introduction | p. 31 |
Issues in the identification of registers and genres | p. 31 |
A framework for situational analysis | p. 36 |
Applying the situational analytical framework in a register study | p. 47 |
Analyzing linguistic features and their functions | p. 50 |
Introduction | p. 50 |
Fundamental issues for the linguistic analysis of registers | p. 51 |
Conducting quantitative analyses | p. 58 |
Deciding on the linguistic features to investigate | p. 63 |
Functional interpretations | p. 64 |
Textual conventions: the genre perspective | p. 69 |
Pervasive linguistic features that are not directly functional: the style perspective | p. 71 |
Embedded registers and genres | p. 72 |
A short introduction to corpus linguistics | p. 73 |
Small-scale versus large-scale register analyses | p. 74 |
Detailed descriptions of registers, genres, and styles | |
Interpersonal spoken registers | p. 85 |
Introduction | p. 85 |
Conversation | p. 86 |
University office hours | p. 96 |
Service encounters | p. 102 |
Conclusion | p. 105 |
Written registers, genres, and styles | p. 109 |
Introduction | p. 109 |
Situational characteristics of newspaper writing and academic prose | p. 110 |
Linguistic features in newspaper writing and academic prose | p. 114 |
Variation within the general registers | p. 124 |
More specific subregisters: research article sections | p. 129 |
Research articles from a genre perspective | p. 131 |
Variation in fiction due to style | p. 132 |
Conclusion | p. 139 |
Historical evolution of registers, genres, and styles | p. 143 |
Introduction | p. 143 |
Historical change I: the fictional novel | p. 144 |
Historical change H: the scientific research article | p. 157 |
Historical change in the patterns of register variation | p. 166 |
Registers and genres in electronic communication | p. 177 |
Introduction: new technology and new registers | p. 177 |
Individual e-mail messages | p. 178 |
E-forum postings | p. 190 |
Text messages | p. 199 |
Chapter summary | p. 208 |
Larger theoretical issues | |
Multidimensional patterns of register variation | p. 215 |
Comparing multiple registers | p. 215 |
Introduction to multidimensional analysis | p. 223 |
MD analysis of university spoken and written registers | p. 226 |
Summary and conclusion | p. 245 |
Register studies in context | p. 253 |
Register studies in the broader context of linguistics | p. 253 |
Register variation in languages other than English | p. 256 |
Speech and writing | p. 260 |
Register variation and sociolinguistics | p. 264 |
Register studies in the broader context of the world | p. 267 |
Annotation of major register/genre studies | p. 271 |
Activity texts | p. 296 |
References | p. 315 |
Index | p. 339 |
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