Aesthetic-linguistic
Bakhtin’s heteroglossia, Eckert’s indexical sociolinguistic features.
Bakhtin · Eckert · Labov · Lakoff-Johnson
The Eighteen Convergent Patterns
3. Calibration to the specific other, rather than one imposed register
The register travels with the relationship rather than with the speaker. He reads which register a connection is operating in and meets it there. What does not move is the content: the same material arrives in whichever register the relationship has settled on.
The relational particulars through which this pattern first became visible remain private. This page stays with the form of the pattern and the interpretations it opens.
Read through the lenses
Sociological
Bourdieu’s field-fluency across distinct fields.
Goffman · Bourdieu · Giddens · Hochschild
Ethical
Care ethics’ relational specificity over universal principle.
Levinas · Care-ethics · Hyde · Murdoch
Translational-multilingual
Steiner’s translation operations.