Wednesday, April 4, 2007

I've just learned something new

I have been reading Viktor Klemperer's "LTI" - study of Nazi Word Usage. Naturally it has been thinking about word usage in blogs. Thanks to wikipedia, I have learned a new technical term for what I would call "diction": "register." A "register" in linguistics refers to a set or subset of vocabulary and word usage used in a particular setting or milieu.

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