registerially

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adverb

In terms of, or by means of, the register of language.

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Meanings

adverbregisterially (not comparable)
  1. not comparablehuman sciencesIn terms of, or by means of, the register of language.

    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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    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

Origin

From registerial + -ly.

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