Corpora: register and genre

[Beverley McCombe]

Hello,
Having embarked on a masters thesis in corpus analysis and wishing to
compare the collocational nature of prepositions across academic disciplines
I find that I am not sure whether to call this 'specific registers' or
genres. Both are written academic prose which would seem to be of the same
genre but as the topics are different - commerce and economics versus
natural science/history - I would call it ,specific registers'.
Any comments?
Beverley McCombe
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