Register variation remains stable across 60 languages

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dc.contributor.authorLi H
dc.contributor.authorNini A
dc.contributor.authorDunn, Jonathan
dc.date.accessioned2022-10-26T19:48:09Z
dc.date.available2022-10-26T19:48:09Z
dc.date.issued2022en
dc.date.updated2022-09-20T16:43:27Z
dc.description.abstractThis paper measures the stability of cross-linguistic register variation. A register is a variety of a language that is associated with extra-linguistic context. The relationship between a register and its context is functional: the linguistic features that make up a register are motivated by the needs and constraints of the communicative situation. This view hypothesizes that register should be universal, so that we expect a stable relationship between the extra-linguistic context that defines a register and the sets of linguistic features which the register contains. In this paper, the universality and robustness of register variation is tested by comparing variation within versus between register-specific corpora in 60 languages using corpora produced in comparable communicative situations: tweets and Wikipedia articles. Our findings confirm the prediction that register variation is, in fact, universal.en
dc.identifier.citationLi H, Dunn J, Nini A Register variation remains stable across 60 languages. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory. 0(0). Published Online: 2022-09-20en
dc.identifier.doihttp://doi.org/10.1515/cllt-2021-0090
dc.identifier.issn1613-7027
dc.identifier.issn1613-7035
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10092/104619
dc.languageen
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherWalter de Gruyter GmbHen
dc.rightsAll rights reserved unless otherwise stateden
dc.rights.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10092/17651en
dc.subjectregister variationen
dc.subjectcross-linguistic variationen
dc.subjectcommunicative situationen
dc.subjecthomogeneityen
dc.subjectregister similarityen
dc.subject.anzsrc0801 Artificial Intelligence and Image Processingen
dc.subject.anzsrc1702 Cognitive Sciencesen
dc.subject.anzsrc2004 Linguisticsen
dc.subject.anzsrcFields of Research::47 - Language, communication and culture::4704 - Linguistics::470404 - Corpus linguisticsen
dc.subject.anzsrcFields of Research::47 - Language, communication and culture::4704 - Linguistics::470406 - Historical, comparative and typological linguisticsen
dc.subject.anzsrcFields of Research::47 - Language, communication and culture::4704 - Linguistics::470411 - Sociolinguisticsen
dc.titleRegister variation remains stable across 60 languagesen
dc.typeJournal Articleen
uc.collegeFaculty of Arts
uc.departmentLanguage, Social and Political Sciences
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