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Register (sociolinguistics)
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Form of language used for a particular purpose or in a particular communicative situation
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In sociolinguistics, a register is a variety of language used for a particular purpose or particular communicative situation. For example, when speaking officially or in a public setting, an English speaker may be more likely to follow prescriptive norms for formal usage than in a casual setting, for example, by pronouncing words ending in -ing...

Instance of
languoid class
Subclass of
languoid
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