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Field

According to linguist Halliday, this is one aspects of language register. Field is ‘that which is going on’ in a conversation, e.g. its overall topic or subject matter, e.g. the field of schoolroom discourse (which, confusingly might have as its topic, holiday destinations or pop music, as well as school related topics). Related to domain.