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registerially

registerially adverb: in terms of, or by means of, the register of language.

Adverb

registerially (not comparable)

  1. In terms of, or by means of, the register of language.
    • Finally, in order to achieve this knowledge, it is essential to develop a means of registerially specifying texts, spoken and written, in terms of their social, historical and discursive functions and their linguistic structure.1995, Helen Leckie-Tarry, Language and Context: A Functional Linguistic Theory of Register, page 5
    • As a semiotic for reasoning, logic is registerially quite constrained: it operates under a number of connexional assumptions about valid reasoning.1999, Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday, Construing Experience Through Meaning: A Language-based Approach to Cognition, page 37

Origin of registerially

From registerial + -ly.

Questions about registerially

What does registerially mean?
Registerially means in terms of, or by means of, the register of language.
What part of speech is registerially?
Registerially is an adverb.

Words near registerially in the dictionary

  1. registeree
  2. registerees
  3. registerer
  4. registerers
  5. registerial
  6. registerially
  7. registeries
  8. registering
  9. registers
  10. registership
  11. registerships

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