Had a lot of fun editing this Special Issue of @registerstudies.bsky.social with @larissagoulart.bsky.social! Our editorial "Situations of Language Use", a survey of traditional approaches to situation over the years, key recent innovations, and original contributions, is now online and open access🙂

Situations of language use

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📢Just out! Andrea Flinn applies the Parameters of Language Use Survey to record the proportions of register use in Levantine Arabic to ultimately improve target domain representativeness in future corpus studies of varieties of Arabic. John Benjamins share.google/Os4xQcAW3Dba...

Surveying native speakers to find the proportions of registers used in Levantine Arabic

Abstract Corpora consisting of Levantine Arabic, the dialects spoken in Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria, include a narrow range of registers and are rarely based on a careful domain description,...

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📢Just out! Meishan Chen examines authentic and TV courtroom discourse and observes notable differences between authentic and TV cross-examinations and closing arguments, underscoring the mediating effect of sub-register in such comparisons. John Benjamins share.google/Sv6BEfy7Dd8u...

“How could you be wrong about something so general as that?”

Abstract Adopting a corpus-based register approach, this study explores the extent to which television courtroom discourse aligns with or diverges from authentic courtroom language, thereby contributi...

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A milestone for register studies! In a new paper, Daniel Keller offers a psycholinguistic account of register, examining register acquistion, representation, & processing through cognitive processes, and proposes that registers are mental categories of discourse events. share.google/dahewowvck4U...

A discourse category model of register representation and processing

Abstract In the text-linguistic tradition of register analysis, registers have often been seen as varieties of language defined by situations of use (see e.g., Biber & Conrad 2019). Recently, howe...

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📢 Just out! Alexandra Končar's "A systemic functional-corpus approach to mapping generic structure" integrates corpus methods with the SFL model of register, visualizing semantic shifts and structural movements within and across televised Slovenian sermons. share.google/JyXXKcX7Bapp...

As part of our Special Issue on Register and Professional Discourse (guest editors @shelleystaples.bsky.social and @gavinbrookes.bsky.social), a series of papers tackle questions related to communication within a range of specialized settings🧵 share.google/A5uSLNgI5boz...

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📢Just out! Duran, Weirich, & Jannedy examine phonetic variation in German as they manipulate formality of the addressee, function of the interaction, and setting in their new study "Experimental assessment of phonetic register variation in situated interaction" www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...

📢Just out! In a new paper "Sensitivity towards Registers in Czech: A Forced-Choice Study", A. Marklová, C. Demian, R. Meyer, L. Szucsich, & O. Buchmüller unite corpus linguistic and experimental methods targeting human perceptions of register-specific features. www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...

💡 Call for Papers! 💡 Our journal Register Studies invites papers for a special issue entitled “Artificial Intelligence and Register Variation” edited by Tony Berber-Sardinha, critically examining the relationship between #AI and #register. 👉 See for further info: www.benjamins.com/series/rs/ca...

Call for Papers: Register Studies Special Issue on AI and Register Variation Deadline for Abstracts: January 1, 2026 Guest Editor: Tony Berber Sardinha drive.google.com/file/d/1aKX1...

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Can a British comedy drama be used in English learning contexts to expose students to useful elements of natural conversation? Find the answer here: www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...

What are the communicative functions of out of office emails? Authors Yagmur Demir, Ryan Bartholomew and Tove Larsson answer this question in “I’m on retreat and will respond to messages after 7/6: A register analysis of out-of-office emails" Out now: www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...

📢📃 New open access 🔓 paper with @perez-paredes.bsky.social in @registerstudies.bsky.social: Exploring public-oriented research communication - A register perspective. You can find the paper here: doi.org/10.1075/rs.2... & some details in the 🧵 below⬇️ @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social @um.es