News across Five Continents - Newspaper Language in the Context of Regional and Functional Variation - Jennifer Fest
5. Defining Register for a Quantitative Analysis
News across Five Continents - Newspaper Language in the Context of Regional and Functional Variation - Jennifer Fest
Jennifer Fest [+]
RWTH Aachen University
Jennifer Fest graduated in linguistics from RWTH Aachen University.
Description
Chapter 5 contains the operationalisation of the theoretical concept of register in order to prepare it for a quantitative analysis. It looks at the three register parameters – field, mode, and tenor of discourse – separately, taking into account their respective subdimensions. The concrete linguistic features defined for each dimension are summarised in a table.