This paper examines the role of register‐making in constructing and evoking authority for political discourses. Three aspects of such enregisterment are defined and exemplified: clasping, relaying, and grafting. Though they occur together in any case of enregisterment, these processes are analytically separable. As registers circulate, they link arenas of social action, creating relations of authority between the social arena of those who construct the register and the arena of those whom the register names and characterizes (clasping). Registers also display connections between organizations in different social arenas (relaying). Finally, registers may draw on—tap into—institutional discourses that are highly authorized, implanting onto them ways of speaking that convey meanings opposed to the institution's values. Paradoxically, such graftings draw authority from the very discourses they oppose. Examples come from Hungarian and other east European politics, as well as historical cases from the US.

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在政治中登记：语言权威的传播和意识形态

本文探讨了登记簿在构建和唤起政治话语权方面的作用。定义并举例说明了这种注册的三个方面：扣紧，接力和嫁接。尽管它们在注册的任何情况下同时发生，但这些过程在分析上是可分离的。随着登记簿的流通，它们将社会行动的各个领域联系起来，从而在构造登记簿的人的社会场所和登记簿命名和表征的人的场所之间建立了权威关系。寄存器还显示不同社交领域（中继）中组织之间的联系。最后，登记员可以借鉴（进入）经过高度授权的机构话语，在他们身上植入表达与机构价值观相反的含义的说话方式。矛盾的是，这种嫁接从他们反对的话语中获得了权威。例子来自匈牙利和其他东欧政治，以及来自美国的历史案例。