Dimensions of Register Variation
Subtitle: A Cross-Linguistic Comparison
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 13, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 446
ISBN-13: 9780521024112
Subjects: Discourse analysis; Phonetics, phonology, prosody (speech); Linguistics; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Language; Sociolinguistics; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics; Register (Linguistics); Register (Linguistics) Register (Linguistics)
First sentence: Variability is inherent in human language: a single speaker will use different linguistic forms on different occasions, and different speakers of a language will say the same thing in different ways.