Registers of Communication.
In any society, communicative activities are organized into models of conduct that differentiate specific social practices from each other and enable people to communicate with each other in ways distinctive to those practices. The articles in this volume investigate a series of locale-specific mode...
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Helsinki :
Finnish Literature Society/SKS,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction and#x2013; An introduction to registers of communication / Asif Agha and Frog and#x2013; I. Approaching register phenomena and#x2013; Enregisterment and communication in social history / Asif Agha and#x2013; Register in systemic functional linguistics / Susanna Shore and#x2013; Registers of oral poetry / Frog and#x2013; II. Between language and register and#x2013; The enregisterment of minority languages in a Danish classroom / Janus Spindler Moller and#x2013; Investigating a register label integrated speech in Copenhagen / Lian Malai Madsen and#x2013; Foreigner talk : a register or registers? / Kapitolina Fedorova and#x2013; Stranger sociality in the home : Israeli Hebrew as register in Latino domestic interaction / Alejandro I. Paz and#x2013; III. Registers in transition and#x2013; The registers and persuasive power of an Indonesian village chronicle / Timo Kaartinen and#x2013; Mourning and honoring register in Karelian lament / James M. Wilce and Janina Fenigsen and#x2013; Inimitable examples : school texts and the classical register in contemporary French politics / Dorothy Noyes and#x2013; IV. Corpus and performance and#x2013; Verbal formulas in Gaelic traditional narrative : some aspects of their form and function / William Lamb and#x2013; Shifting linguistic registers and the nature of the sacred in Cherokee / Margaret Bender and#x2013; The register of Karelian lamenters / Eila Stepanova and#x2013; V. Performance and poetics and#x2013; Register in oral traditional phraseology / Lauri Harvilahti and#x2013; Multimodel register and performance arena in Ingrian oral poetry / Kati Kallio.