有关register, genre和style

[lucindazhao]

看见Biber的书里再讲用语料库研究register variations，可以一会儿又提到了genre，有读到了一些文体学方面的资料好像style也和这两个词相近。问了一个同事，告诉我register是社会语言学和文体学中都研究的内容。因为现在想做一篇论文就是研究文体的特点，所以我到底该怎么查阅资料呢？现在很晕，查资料都不知道改朝哪儿抓，这里的专家大师们能不能给我指明指明。

 

[xujiajin]

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http://llt.msu.edu/vol5num3/lee/default.html

This article provides a comprehensive overview of the concepts.

 

[Byron B. Chang]

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another piece of evidence that the world is made of stories, not atoms.

 

[Lily Ray]

another piece of evidence that the world is made of stories, not atoms.

从Biber的University Language：A corpus-based study of spoken and written registers中摘出的关于register与genre的区别，从两个角度来分辨：
1. the object of study; 2. the characteristics of language and culture that are investigated.
从第一个角度来说，register用于refer to a general kind of language associated with a domain of use, such as a 'legal register','scientific register',or'bureaucratic register'; 而genre用于refer to a culturally recognized 'message type' with a conventional internal structure, such as a biology research article or a business memo.
从第二个角度来说，register主要研究lexico-grammatical features, showing how the use of particular words, word types, and grammatical features vary systematically in accord with the situation of use; genre主要研究socio-cultural actions,如genres are "how things get done when language is used to accomplish them"(Martin说的），也即genre关注的是issues of ideology and social power.

在国外的研究中style好像多指作家的个人风格，不是一个社会群体里约定的套路。

 

[joe]

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Here is an article for your reference浏览附件Genres, Registers, Text Types, Domain, and Styles - Clarifying the Concepts and Navigating a Pat.pdf