REGISTER VARIETIES AND VARIATION in ENGLISH and Generative Multimodal Large language models

The project REGISTER VARIETIES AND VARIATION in ENGLISH and Generative Multimodal Large Language Models intends to investigate register varieties as defined by Douglas Biber and their variations in English language use. The study of variation in English is the study of language use, and to narrow the purpose of this investigation, I will focus my attention on the concept of convergence and divergence applied to registers of professional sectors and persuasive registers. Furthermore, this study will consider variation in both the context of use and communicative goals (and sub-goals) in social practices and the classroom. This last part is defined theoretically by the extensive study that M.H. Long dedicated to focus-on-form and communication (including feedback) in the classroom. The tools I will use are available corpora, open-source APIs and datasets available to the public, and, generally, Generative Multimodal Large Language Models such as Claude by Anthropic.