Year | definition | source | 1983 | "Register refers to varieties of a language according to differences in uses demanded by specific social sitations, such as advertising, church service, political journalism, shopping, or academic discussion." | Stern, H. H. (1983, p.125) |
1995 | "It describes variations in spoken and written language which identify the language with a particular function or purpose within a particular social context, for example a legal register, or a register of advertising, or a register of weather forecasting." | Carter, Ronald (1995, p.128) |
2001 | "... the linguistic resources that speakers have at their disposal to mark their attitude towards their interlocutors." | Mey, Jacob L. (2001, p.41) |
2002 | "..is concerned with the overall tone of a text or conversation, and the relationship that is built between the speaker and listener, or reader and writer." | McCarthy, M. & O'Dell, F. (2002, p.16) |