Register Studies is a refereed journal devoted to the publication of high-quality research on register and its relationship to all aspects of language use, variation, change, and learning. This journa...

Issue of Register Studies

Issue of Register Studies

Issue of Register Studies

Issue of Register Studies

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Abstract Corpora consisting of Levantine Arabic, the dialects spoken in Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria, include a narrow range of registers and are rarely based on a careful domain description,...

Abstract Adopting a corpus-based register approach, this study explores the extent to which television courtroom discourse aligns with or diverges from authentic courtroom language, thereby contributi...

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...

In systemic functional linguistics (SFL), register is understood as the product of the interplay among context, meaning, and grammar. While various methodological approaches have explored this relatio...

Issue of Register Studies

Abstract This study analyses phonetic variation in cross-situational conversational speech styles in German by varying situations in terms of the level of perceived formality of the addressee and the ...

Register Studies is a refereed journal devoted to the publication of high-quality research on register and its relationship to all aspects of language use, variation, change, and learning. This journa...

Abstract The aim of this study is to determine whether the British comedy drama Cold Feet could be used in English learning contexts to expose students to useful elements of natural conversation. Usin...

Abstract Previous studies have shown that dividing a broad register into sub-registers may reduce its internal variability. Building on this phenomenon, this study analyzes out-of-office emails, a sub...

Abstract Garnering public engagement with academic research in a timely and accessible manner has become a central concern in contemporary academia. This centrality has given rise to a growing interes...