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Speech Registers

Speech Register is a linguistic construct that specifies the functional variety of language shaped by contextual factors such as formality, participants, setting, and purpose, distinguishing it from other language varieties by its situational adaptability in communicative interactions.

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132

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69

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2017–2026

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Speech Register

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Publications

71

<b>Dimensions of register variation:</b> A cross-linguistic comparison. By Douglas Biber. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xvi, 428.

Thomas E. Nunnally · Language · 1999 · 721 citations

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Stance in spoken and written university registers

Douglas Biber · Journal of English for Academic Purposes · 2006 · 611 citations

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Infants' Listening Preferences: Baby Talk or Happy Talk?

Leher Singh, James L. Morgan, Catherine T. Best · Infancy · 2002 · 314 citations

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LANGUAGE, REGISTER AND GENRE

Anne Burns, Caroline Coffin · 2013 · 291 citations

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Sports announcer talk: Syntactic aspects of register variation

Charles A. Ferguson · Language in Society · 1983 · 274 citations

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Authors

132

  1. DB
    Douglas Biber

    Northern Arizona University, United States

    7 publications · 1.2K citations

    7

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  2. JE
    Jesse Egbert

    Northern Arizona University, United States

    3 publications · 121 citations

    3

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  3. LH
    Liliane Haegeman

    Ghent University, Belgium

    2 publications · 229 citations

    2

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  4. AB
    Anton Batliner

    Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

    2 publications · 58 citations

    2

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  5. CA
    Charles A. Ferguson

    Stanford University, United States

    2 publications · 357 citations

    2

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Institutions

69

  1. Northern Arizona University

    Flagstaff, United States

    8 h-index

    17 publications

    1.8K citations

  2. Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

    Erlangen, Germany

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    116 citations

  3. Iowa State University

    Ames, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    88 citations

  4. University of Connecticut

    Storrs, United States

    2 h-index

    5 publications

    332 citations

  5. University of Helsinki

    Helsinki, Finland

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    76 citations

  6. Universitat de València

    Valencia, Spain

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    25 citations

  7. University of Northern Iowa

    Cedar Falls, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    22 citations

  8. RIKEN Center for Brain Science

    Wako, Japan

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    58 citations

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Venues

  1. Language Variation and Change

    3 publications · 203 citations

    3

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  2. Language in Society

    3 publications · 469 citations

    3

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  3. Journal of Pragmatics

    3 publications · 129 citations

    3

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  4. Journal of English Linguistics

    3 publications · 216 citations

    3

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  5. Journal of Phonetics

    2 publications · 149 citations

    2

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