enregisterment
English
editEtymology
editFrom enregister + -ment.
Noun
editenregisterment (countable and uncountable, plural enregisterments)
- (linguistics, sociology) The process of enregistering or becoming a register ("a style of a language used in a particular context").
- 2009 June, Bonnie Urciuoli, “Talking/Not Talking about Race: The Enregisterments of Culture in Higher Education Discourses”, in Linguistic Anthropology, volume 19, number 1, Wiley, , →ISSN, →OCLC, page 29:
- The enregisterment of culture among Latino, Black, and Asian students resembles that of multicultural programs insofar as the noun culture denotes a valuable possession of the racially marked and a contribution to the larger community.