See also field, mode, tenor Register is a linguistic term referring to the way in which language varies according to the situation in which it is used. There are three aspects of register. ‘Field’ is the topic, ‘mode’ is who is...

In linguistics, a register language is a language which combines tone and vowel phonation into a single phonological system. Burmese and the Chinese dialect Shanghainese are examples. Burmese is usually considered a tonal language, but differences in...