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--- In Unschooling-dotcom@y..., freeform@j... wrote:

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> Typically, the term linguistic regsiter is used to describe the
> specialized language used by people of a certain occupation, or with a
> certain specialized interest... lepidopterists have a linguistic
> register, for example, and so do philatelists, or physicians.


That's only one type of register. There are many more . . .
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Registers are varieties that are distinguished by 'use': topic, setting,
relationship between speakers (power and solidarity/familiarity)

Everyone has a repertoire that includes many registers

Dialects and Registers vary at every level of linguistic structure:
phonetic/phonological, morphological, syntactic, semantic
Linguistic variants take on social meaning
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For example, in English we might speak of a popular youth register (my
readers will perhaps suspect that I am starting at what I regard as the
low end of the scale, and they might even sympathize with my jaundiced
judgement). Let me define this register as that level of speech which we
associate with Triple-J and other forms of media addressed to our hapless
young. Next we might consider the level of educated discourse, the kind
of speech that one would expect to hear in ordinary conversation between
educated people. Then there are technical registers: the language of
sailors, or motor mechanics, or cricketers for example. This leads on to
literary registers � the language of books � which may themselves be
classified chronologically: Johnsonian, Shakespearean, Chaucerian English
for example.
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Book to check out if you are really interested in the topic:

Dimensions of Register Variation
A Cross-Linguistic Comparison
Douglas Biber
ISBN: 0521473314
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If you've read this far you must be interested . . .
There seems to be a brewing debate among linguists who want to separate
differences based on profession or technology from differences based on
socio-economic status and situational differences. Some want to apply
the word "register" ONLY to profession registers and use the word "style"
for the rest. I expect this debate to get as heated (among linguists) as
the one about using "their" as a third person singular pronoun.

Bridget
Nollaig Shona -- S�och�in ar domhan,
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