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A discourse category model of register representation and processing

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Abstract
In the text-linguistic tradition of register analysis, registers have often been seen as varieties of language defined by situations of use (see e.g., Biber, D., & Conrad, S. (2019). Register, genre, and style. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar). Recently, however, registers have been reconceptualized so as to permit more robust analyses of situations, intra-register variation in situational characteristics, and functional correspondences between situational and linguistic variables (e.g., Biber, D., & Egbert, J. A. (2023). What is a register? Accounting for linguistic and situational variation within — and outside of — textual varieties. Register Studies, 5(1), 1–22. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar). As part of this program, Biber and Egbert have recently called for psycholinguistic research into the nature of registers and register variation (Biber, D., & Egbert, J. A. (2023). What is a register? Accounting for linguistic and situational variation within — and outside of — textual varieties. Register Studies, 5(1), 1–22. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar: 19). However, few researchers have attempted to theorize registers as explicitly psycholinguistic constructs (cf., Keller, D. (2021). Register Representation and Processing. Northern Arizona University. (Unpublished doctoral dissertation).). Toward this end, this paper proposes the Discourse Category Model (DCM) of cognitive processes underlying register acquisition, representation, and processing. In this model, registers are mental categories of discourse events. This view contrasts with a purely functional view of register variation that sees registers as corpus-linguistic epiphenomena rather than cognitive phenomena. The model is intended to provide a framework for investigating the nature of registers and register variation from an explicitly cognitive orientation. Testable predictions generated by the model are presented along with research paradigms that may be useful for testing them.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Psychological processes underlying fluent, register-appropriate comprehension and production
    • 2.1Categorization
    • 2.2Co-occurrence pattern learning
      • 2.2.1Statistical learning
      • 2.2.2Implicit learning and chunking
      • 2.2.3Associative learning
    • 2.3Mental modeling
    • 2.4Predictive processing
    • 2.5Interactions among cognitive processes in register acquisition and use
      • 2.5.1Acquisition of register knowledge
      • 2.5.2Deployment of register knowledge during discourse events
  • 3.Register phenomena explained by the discourse category model of register variation
  • 4.A program of research for the DCM
  • 5.Conclusion
  • Note
  • Author queries
  • References
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