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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Registers, genres, and styles: fundamental varieties of language | |
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| Text varieties in your daily life | |
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| Texts, varieties, registers, and dialects | |
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| Registers and register analysis: an overview | |
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| Different perspectives on text varieties: register, genre, style | |
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| Register/genre variation as a linguistic universal | |
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| Overview of the book | |
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| Analytical framework | |
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| Describing the situational characteristics of registers and genres | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Issues in the identification of registers and genres | |
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| A framework for situational analysis | |
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| Applying the situational analytical framework in a register study | |
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| Analyzing linguistic features and their functions | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Fundamental issues for the linguistic analysis of registers | |
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| Conducting quantitative analyses | |
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| Deciding on the linguistic features to investigate | |
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| Functional interpretations | |
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| Textual conventions: the genre perspective | |
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| Pervasive linguistic features that are not directly functional: the style perspective | |
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| Embedded registers and genres | |
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| A short introduction to corpus linguistics | |
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| Small-scale versus large-scale register analyses | |
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| Detailed descriptions of registers, genres, and styles | |
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| Interpersonal spoken registers | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Conversation | |
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| University office hours | |
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| Service encounters | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Written registers, genres, and styles | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Situational characteristics of newspaper writing and academic prose | |
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| Linguistic features in newspaper writing and academic prose | |
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| Variation within the general registers | |
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| More specific subregisters: research article sections | |
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| Research articles from a genre perspective | |
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| Variation in fiction due to style | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Historical evolution of registers, genres, and styles | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Historical change I: the fictional novel | |
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| Historical change II: the scientific research article | |
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| Historical change in the patterns of register variation | |
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| Registers and genres in electronic communication | |
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| Introduction: new technology and new registers | |
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| Individual e-mail messages | |
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| E-forurn postings | |
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| Text messages | |
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| Chapter summary | |
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| Larger theoretical issues | |
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| Multidimensional patterns of register variation | |
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| Comparing multiple registers | |
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| Introduction to multidimensional analysis | |
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| MD analysis of university spoken and written registers | |
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| Summary and conclusion | |
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| Register studies in context | |
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| Register studies in the broader context of linguistics | |
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| Register variation in languages other than English | |
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| Speech and writing | |
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| Register variation and sociolinguistics | |
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| Register studies in the broader context of the world | |
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| Annotation of major register/genre studies (by Federica Barbieri) | |
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| Activity texts | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |