This collection brings together several perspectives on language varieties defined according to their contexts of use--what are variously called registers, subl

A collection of research papers on variation in language according to the occasion of use, which is variously known as register, register variation or style var

This book describes the most important kinds of texts in English and introduces the methodological techniques used to analyse them. Three analytical approaches

The work of the linguist Charles A. Ferguson spans more than three decades, and is remarkable for having been consistently at the forefront of scholarship on th

The work of the linguist Charles A. Ferguson spans more than three decades, and is remarkable for having been consistently at the forefront of scholarship on th