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Register emergence and register change in Germanic

Publications & Presentations

Publications

2023

• Pescuma, Valentina Nicole; Serova, Dina; Lukassek, Julia; Sauermann, Antje; Schäfer, Roland; Adli, Aria; Bildhauer, Felix; Egg, Markus; Hülk, Kristina; Ito, Aine; Jannedy, Stefanie; Kordoni, Valia; Kühnast, Milena; Kutscher, Silvia; Lange, Robert; Lehmann, Nico; Liu, Mingya; Lütke, Beate; Maquate, Katja; Mooshammer, Christine; Mortezapour, Vahid; Müller, Stefan; Norde, Muriel; Pankratz, Elizabeth; Patarroyo, Angela Giovanna; Plesca, Ana-Maria; Ronderos, Camilo R.; Rotter, Stephanie; Sauerland, Uli; Schulte, Britta; Schüppenhauer, Gediminas; Sell, Bianca Maria; Solt, Stephanie; Terada, Megumi; Tsiapou, Dimitra; Verhoeven, Elisabeth; Weirich, Melanie; Wiese, Heike; Zaruba, Kathy; Zeige, Lars Erik; Lüdeling, Anke; Knoeferle, Pia; Schnelle, Gohar  (2023) Situating language register across the ages, languages, modalities, and cultural aspects: Evidence from complementary methods In:  Frontiers in Psychology [DOI] [ViVo]

  In the present review paper by members of the collaborative research center ‘Register: Language Users’ Knowledge of SituationalFunctional Variation’ (CRC 1412), we assess the pervasiveness of register phenomena across different time periods, languages, modalities, and cultures. We define ‘register’ as recurring variation in language use depending on the function of language and on the social situation. Informed by rich data, we aim to better understand and model the knowledge involved in situation- and function-based use of language register. In order to achieve this goal, we are using complementary methods and measures. In the review, we start by clarifying the concept of ‘register’, by reviewing the state of the art, and by setting out our methods and modeling goals. Against this background, we discuss three key challenges, two at the methodological level and one at the theoretical level: 1. To better uncover registers in text and spoken corpora, we propose changes to established analytical approaches. 2. To tease apart between-subject variability from the linguistic variability at issue (intra-individual situation based register variability), we use within-subject designs and the modeling of individuals’ social, language, and educational background. 3. We highlight a gap in cognitive modeling, viz. modeling the mental representations of register (processing), and present our first attempts at filling this gap. We argue that the targeted use of multiple complementary methods and measures supports investigating the pervasiveness of register phenomena and yields comprehensive insights into the cross-methodological robustness of register-related language variability. These comprehensive insights in turn provide a solid foundation for associated cognitive modeling.

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Presentations

2022

• Beier, Phil  (2022) Altschwedisch für Laien. Registeranalyse in Birgittas Offenbarungen In:  17. Überregionale Promovierendentagung der Skandinavistik, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn [ViVo]
• Beier, Phil  (2022) Register in den Offenbarungen der Heiligen Birgitta von Schweden In:  25. ATdS, LMU München [ViVo]
• Norde, Muriel; Beier, Phil  (2022) Modelling modal meaning: Directivity in Old Swedish religious prose In:  25th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, University of Oxford [ViVo]
• Schnelle, Gohar; Lehmann, Nico; Marklová, Anna  (2022) Reading circle terminology In:  CRC 1412 – Spring Retreat 2022 [ViVo]
• Norde, Muriel; Beier, Phil  (2022) Modal constructions in Old Swedish legal and religious texts In:  Expressions of modality in Germanic: Competition and change, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin [ViVo]
• Beier, Phil  (2022) Register im Altschwedischen? Heliga Birgittas Uppenbarelser In:  Lingvistisk lördag, ISFAS, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel [ViVo]
• Beier, Phil  (2022) Two perspectives on studying register in St Birgitta's revelations In:  NECRON - Network of Early Career Researchers in Old Norse, Stockholms Universitet [ViVo]
• Beier, Phil  (2022) Registers in St. Birgitta's Revelations In:  OXBER-Summer School: Medialität / (Re-)Mediation, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin [ViVo]

2021

• Schnelle, Gohar; Beier, Phil  (2021) Register dependent variation. Instructions in Notker’s Psalterium and the Revelations of St. Birgitta In:  Intra-Writer Variation in Historical Sociolinguistics FAU Erlangen [ViVo]
• Beier, Phil  (2021) Latinsk påverkan på ett religiöst register? Framväxten av register i Heliga Birgittas uppenbarelser In:  Svenska Språkets Historia 16 (SSH16) Lunds universitet [ViVo]
• Beier, Phil  (2021) Register emergence and Register Change in St. Birgitta's revelations In:  Sällskapet för östnordisk filologi (SÖF) femte internationella konferens [ViVo]

2020

• Norde, Muriel; Beier, Phil  (2020) Registergenes och registerförändring i fornsvenskan – det Birgittinska materialet In:  Kollokviet för nordisk filologi (Institutionen för svenska och flerspråkighet Stockholms universitet) [ViVo]