Registers of communication / / edited by Asif Agha & Frog.

• Author: Register: Intersections of Language, Context and Communication (Colloquium)
• TeilnehmendeR: Agha, Asif, 1961-; Frog, 1972-; Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura,; Helsingin yliopisto,; Register: Intersections of Language, Context and Communication (Colloquium) (2012 : University of Helsinki); Register II: Emergence, Change and Obsolescence (Colloquium) (2013 : University of Helsinki)
• Language: English

Table of Contents

An introduction to registers of communication / Asif Agha and Frog -- Enregisterment and communication in social history / Asif Agha -- Register in systemic functional linguistics / Susanna Shore -- Registers of oral poetry / Frog -- The enregisterment of minority languages in a Danish classroom / Janus Spindler Møller -- Investigating a register label : integrated speech in Copenhagen / Lian Malai Madsen -- Foreigner talk : a register or registers? / Kapitolina Fedorova -- Stranger sociality in the home : Israeli Hebrew as register in Latino domestic interaction / Alejandro I. Paz -- The registers and persuasive powers of an Indonesian village chronicle / Timo Kaartinen -- Mourninig and honor : register in Karelian lament / James M. Wilce and Janina Fenigsen -- School texts and the classical register in contemporary French politics / Dorothy Noyes -- Verbal formulas in Gaelic traditional narrative : some aspects of their form and function / William Lamb -- Shifting linguistic registers and the nature of the sacred in Cherokee / Margaret Bender -- The register of Karelian lamenters / Eila Stepanova -- On traditional register in oral poetry / John Miles Foley -- Register in oral traditional phraseology / Lauri Harvilahti -- Multimodal register and performance arena in Ingrian oral poetry / Kati Kallio.