registerially

English

Etymology

registerial +‎ -ly

Adverb

registerially (not comparable)

1. (linguistics) In terms of, or by means of, the register of language.
   • 1995, Helen Leckie-Tarry, Language and Context: A Functional Linguistic Theory of Register, page 5:

     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.

   • 1999, Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday, Construing Experience Through Meaning: A Language-based Approach to Cognition, page 37:

     As a semiotic for reasoning, logic is registerially quite constrained: it operates under a number of connexional assumptions about valid reasoning.

   • 2010, Stefan Thomas Gries, Corpus-linguistic Applications: Current Studies, New Directions‎^[1], page 235:

     To explore the first question, we have compared the DaSciTex corpus with the registerially mixed FLOB corpus.