Situating language register across the ages, languages, modalities, and cultural aspects: Evidence from complementary methods

VN Pescuma, D Serova, J Lukassek… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
In the present review paper by members of the collaborative research center “Register:
Language Users' Knowledge of Situational-Functional Variation”(CRC 1412), we assess the …

What is a register?: Accounting for linguistic and situational variation within–and outside of–textual varieties

D Biber, J Egbert - Register Studies, 2023 - jbe-platform.com
Empirical studies of register variation have established the existence of functional
correspondence between situation/context and language use. However, previous …

[CARTE][B] The register-Functional approach to grammatical complexity: Theoretical foundation, descriptive research findings, application

D Biber, B Gray, S Staples, J Egbert - 2021 - api.taylorfrancis.com
This collection brings together the editors' previous research with new work on the Register-
Functional (RF) approach to grammatical complexity, offering a unified theoretical account …

Towards a taxonomy of conversational discourse types: An empirical corpus-based analysis

D Biber, J Egbert, D Keller, S Wizner - Journal of Pragmatics, 2021 - Elsevier
Scholars from several research traditions have explored the ways in which speakers
sometimes employ larger coherent discourse units within a conversational interaction. For …

Text-linguistic approaches to register variation

D Biber - Register studies, 2019 - jbe-platform.com
Abstract Douglas Biber, Regents' Professor of Applied Linguistics at Northern Arizona
University, authors this article exploring the connections between register and a text …

A new multidimensional model of writing for research publication: An analysis of disciplinarity, intra-textual variation, and L1 versus LX expert writing

T Omidian, A Siyanova-Chanturia, D Biber - Journal of English for …, 2021 - Elsevier
Scholarly knowledge in contemporary academia is created and communicated primarily
through writing for research publication. It is through this particular form of knowledge …

Identifying and describing functional discourse units in the BNC Spoken 2014

J Egbert, S Wizner, D Keller, D Biber, T McEnery… - Text & Talk, 2021 - degruyter.com
On the surface, it appears that conversational language is produced in a stream of spoken
utterances. In reality conversation is composed of contiguous units that are characterized by …

Assessing the complexity of lectal competence: the register-specificity of the dative alternation after give

A Engel, J Grafmiller, L Rosseel… - Cognitive …, 2022 - degruyter.com
Recent evidence suggests that probabilistic grammars may be modulated by communication
mode and genre. Accordingly, the question arises how complex language users' lectal …

In this essay, I will…: Examining variation of communicative purpose in student written genres

L Goulart, D Biber, R Reppen - Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 2022 - Elsevier
Several previous researchers have developed taxonomies of the written genres produced
by students in university content classes. These studies have often described the …

Register identification from the unrestricted open Web using the Corpus of Online Registers of English

V Laippala, S Rönnqvist, M Oinonen… - Language Resources …, 2023 - Springer
This article examines the automatic identification of Web registers, that is, text varieties such
as news articles and reviews. Most studies have focused on corpora restricted to include …