Family Register in British English: The First Approach to its Systematic Study

Giménez-Moreno, Rosa; Skorczynska, Hanna

doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2015.02.056

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“…From this perspective, as mentioned above, several genres and communicative environments have been analysed: business correspondence (Giménez-Moreno, 2011a), business meetings and phone conversations (Giménez-Moreno, 2011b), email writing (Giménez-Moreno and Skorczynska, 2013) and private conversations in the family register (Giménez-Moreno and Skorczynska, 2015;Skorczynska and Giménez-Moreno, 2017). For the understanding of register fluctuation and for the instruction of professional practitioners on the functioning of RV in daily communication, this approach has proven to be helpful (Giménez-Moreno, 2010).…”

Section: A Comprehensive and Practical Approach To Language Registersmentioning

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Roles and Registers in Digital Forum Interaction: Developing a Communicative Identity-Based Approach to Register Variation

Moreno

Sierra

2017

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The paper studies how communicative roles and registers are expressed in an interdependent way, influencing each other in current forums. In the first part, by combining previous insights in register variation analysis, social identity theory and cognitive linguistics, three new concepts for linguistic analysis are proposed: 'Register-Modulating Role' (RMR), 'Register compass' (R-compass) and 'pivotal register'. The way they function in digital discourse is illustrated in the second part by analysing an open discussion forum sample corpus. The results show that each forum's profile displays a different array of RMR, together with their associated registers, which tend to spin around a prominent pivotal register. In our corpus three salient pivotal registers are identified, together with their associated registers and distinctive language features. The study substantiates the close connection between relational identities or roles and registers in digital discourse, and facilitates linguistic devices for a better use and understanding of register variation and forum discourse.Keywords: Register-modulating role, communicative identities, computer-mediated communication, discussion forum, register variation. RLA. Revista de LingüísticaTeórica y Aplicada Concepción (Chile), 55 (2), II Sem. 2017, pp. 143-167. CL ISSN 0033 -698X 144 RLA. Revista de Lingüística Teórica y Aplicada, 55 (2), II Sem. 2017 RESUMENEl presente artículo estudia cómo los roles y registros comunicativos se expresan de forma interdependiente, influenciándose mutuamente en los actuales foros digitales. En la primera parte, y a partir de la combinación de estudios previos sobre variación de registros comunicativos, la teoría de la identidad social y la lingüística cognitiva, se proponen tres nuevos conceptos para el análisis discursivo: 'Rol Modulador de Registro' (RMR), 'brújula del registro' y 'registro-pivote'. La forma en la que funcionan en el discurso digital se ilustra en la segunda parte, con el análisis de un corpus de foros de discusión. Los resultados demuestran que cada perfil de foro despliega una gama diferente de RMR, junto con sus registros asociados, y que todos ellos tienden a emerger y alternar alrededor de un registropivote prominente. En nuestro corpus se identifican tres claros registros-pivote con sus rasgos lingüísticos distintivos. El estudio sustenta la estrecha relación entre identidades relacionales o roles comunicativos y registros lingüísticos en el discurso digital y facilita herramientas discursivas para el análisis, la comprensión y el uso de la variación del registro en la interacción actual a través de internet.Palabras clave: Rol modulador de registro, identidades comunicativas, comunicación por ordenador, foro de discusión, variación de registro.

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Section: A Comprehensive and Practical Approach To Language Registersmentioning

confidence: 99%