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register

[linguistics]the level of formality of speech or writing that is used in different social situations and is determined by the choice of vocabulary, pronunciation, and syntax. (FR==> niveau de langue)

Contractions in English often belong to an informal register. ▫ slang expressions that denote a very low register of speech.

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the relation of text to context via situationally determined varieties of language, within the social semiotic framework elaborated by the Australia-based UK linguist Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday.

A register is a configuration of meanings (and therefore expression) associated with particular configurations of situational context. It comprises three categories.

  1. Field1 refers to the nature of the language event that is taking place (a staff meeting, say, or a legal contract);
  2. mode to what part language is playing in the event (spoken, written, signed, etc.);
  3. tenor to the relation between participants in the event (close/distant, higher/lower social rank, etc.).

In the model of translation quality assessment drawn up and refined by the German applied linguist and translation scholar Juliane House in 1997, register configurations are used to create profiles of source and target texts as the basis of comparison.