SLA 106 : Document research on the description of Register and Stylistic
Document Summary
Document research on the description of register and stylistic: register. Register refers to the concept of adapting one s use of language to conform to standards or traditions in a given professional or social situation, and writers and editors will benefit from recognizing the distinction between registers. In linguistics, a register is a variety of a language used for a particular purpose or in a particular social setting. ), and refraining from using contractions such as ain"t than when speaking in an informal setting. As with other types of language variation, there tends to be a spectrum of registers rather than a discrete set of obviously distinct varieties numerous registers could be identified, with no clear boundaries between them. Discourse categorisation is a complex problem, and even in the general definition of "register" given above (language variation defined by use not user), there are cases where other kinds of language variation, such as regional or age dialect, overlap.
