stylistic variation

December 3, 2021

stylistic variation

In linguistics stylistic variation or register is one of the many styles or varieties of language determined by such factors as social occasion, context, purpose, and audience. More generally, the term register refers to degrees of formality in language use. Style is also seen as a mark of character – Le style est l’homme même- by the Count de Buffon

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principles of Linguistic Change, Volume 2: Social Factors – William Labov 2001

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Principles of Linguistic Change, Volume 3 Cognitive and Cultural Factors – William Labov 2001

1960 a stance is essentially a form of contextualization air cavitas oris audience cavitas-oris context context-specific knowledge contextual editing degrees of formality in language use generic ideology idio-hanger idio-pista idiodialect Indexical order International Encyclopedia of Linguistics language letters linguistic register linguistic signifier Linguistics Nonperformative particular social setting philology Principles of Linguistic Change Professor William Labov purpose register is a variety of a language slang social occasion Stance-taking study of literary texts as well as oral and written records Style is the man himself stylistic variation The style is the man himself variationist sociolinguistics Volume 2 : Social Factors Wardhaugh William Labov

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