Talk:Style-shifting

Untitled[edit]

This article could use some style shifting of its own. It's very dense. aeonite (talk) 17:05, 21 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Merger proposal[edit]

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.

The result of the discussion was no consensus to merge. -- Cnilep (talk) 18:44, 1 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The proposed target of merger, Register (linguistics) is a redirect to Register (sociolinguistics). Obviously, this page should not be merged to the former.

I oppose merger with the latter. Although style and register are similar topics, there are distinct histories and literatures on each topic in linguistics and sociolinguistics. More importantly, style-shifting is a sub-topic of sociolinguistic discussions of style. Register is not. Cnilep (talk) 17:25, 8 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Technical[edit]

This article may be fine for linguistics students but is far too technical for a general encyclopedia. It's almost entirely framed in jargon and specialist terminology and I'm pretty much none the wiser after reading it. Mutt Lunker (talk) 15:02, 8 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Merge with Style (sociolinguistics)[edit]

Merging to Register (sociolinguistics) may have been a bad idea, but I think clearly this ought to be merged with Style (sociolinguistics). The articles are on basically the same topic and cover much of the same ground. AJD (talk) 04:18, 10 November 2013 (UTC) Done[reply]