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.