registerially

adv

registerially

adv

Etymology From registerial + -ly.

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Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences In terms of, or by means of, the register of language.

  • Finally, in order to achieve this knowledge, it is essential to develop a means of registerially specifying texts, spoken and written, in terms of their social, historical and discursive functions and their linguistic structure.1995, Helen Leckie-Tarry, Language and Context: A Functional Linguistic Theory of Register, page 5:
  • As a semiotic for reasoning, logic is registerially quite constrained: it operates under a number of connexional assumptions about valid reasoning.1999, Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday, Construing Experience Through Meaning: A Language-based Approach to Cognition, page 37:
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  • To explore the first question, we have compared the DaSciTex corpus with the registerially mixed FLOB corpus.2010, Stefan Thomas Gries, Corpus-linguistic Applications: Current Studies, New Directions, page 235:

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