According to M. A. K. Halliday, language varieties can be categorized into different registers in line with the given con?text. The three social variables of register are field, tenor and mode, to which speakers may adapt their language behaviours. On the basis of Halliday's Register Theory, this paper makes an in-depth analysis of the newly-born language variety, the barrage lan?guage (弹幕语言), to promote readers'understanding towards it and help to better comprehend the reasonableness of its existence.
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