Department of Digital Humanities & Social Studies @fau.de
PhD in Applied Linguistics, Northern Arizona University
Associate Editor @registerstudies.bsky.social
Grammar, text linguistics, register variation, corpus linguistics
Marianna Gracheva
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c) topic type emerges as a key factor explaining variation (alongside other parameters such as communicative purpose, examined in earlier work)
d) crucially, functional correspondence between the language and specific communicative characteristics of register texts persists across registers.
#register #texttypes #genre
It shows that
a) texts within registers vary in their prototypicality;
b) linguistic deviations from the register central trend are always communicatively grounded;
