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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Published in:	Language & Linguistics Compass Vol. 10; no. 11; pp. 632 - 644
Main Author:	Johnstone, Barbara
Format:	Article
Published:	Wiley-Blackwell Nov2016
Subjects:	Sociolinguistics Language ability testing Semiotics Communication & society Language acquisition History
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