Enregisterment: How linguistic items become linked with ways of speaking.

A key question for sociolinguistics is how communicative signs and sets of signs come to index styles, identities, activities, genres, dialects, and other social and communicative practices. The concept of 'enregisterment,' borrowed from linguistic anthropologists in the Piercian semiotic tradition,...

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Publicado en:Language & Linguistics Compass Vol. 10; no. 11; pp. 632 - 644
Autor principal: Johnstone, Barbara
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Nov2016
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