Genre vs. register

[Christopher Hart]

Dear Colleagues,

Can anyone explain brefly (or point me in the right direction) how 
'genre' and register' relate to each other. Halliday and Hasan (1985: 
38) define registers as varieties of language ‘typically associated with 
a particular situational configuration of field, tenor and mode’. 
Fairclough (1995: 132) defines genres as various ‘uses of language 
associated with particular socially ratified activity types’.

All help appreciated.

Chris

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Christopher Hart
Lecturer in English Language and Communication
School of Humanities
University of Hertfordshire