📢Just out! Meishan Chen examines authentic and TV courtroom discourse and observes notable differences between authentic and TV cross-examinations and closing arguments, underscoring the mediating effect of sub-register in such comparisons.
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📢 Just out! Alexandra Končar's "A systemic functional-corpus approach to mapping generic structure" integrates corpus methods with the SFL model of register, visualizing semantic shifts and structural movements within and across televised Slovenian sermons. share.google/JyXXKcX7Bapp...
A milestone for register studies! In a new paper, Daniel Keller offers a psycholinguistic account of register, examining register acquistion, representation, & processing through cognitive processes, and proposes that registers are mental categories of discourse events.
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Abstract In the text-linguistic tradition of register analysis, registers have often been seen as varieties of language defined by situations of use (see e.g., Biber & Conrad 2019). Recently, howe...