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Mind map of the Register of the English Language
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Register - English Language
  1. relationship between speaker/writer and interlocutors/audience
    1. FORMAL: disparate power relationships e.g teacher and student
      1. INFORMAL: equal power relationship (e.g among friends)
      2. physical setting (Domain), and situational and cultural context
        1. subject matter/topic/domain/field
          1. taboo
          2. mode (spoken, written or electronic)
            1. purpose/function of the interaction
              1. social attitudes and beliefs of participants
                1. Informal
                  1. Functions
                    1. Encourages intimacy, solidarity and equality
                      1. Supporting in-group membership
                        1. Maintaining postive face needs
                          1. Linguistic innovation
                          2. Non Standard english
                            1. Colloquialsms
                              1. Australian English
                                1. ties into geographical variation (e.g lexical differences between NSW and VIC)
                                2. Slang
                                  1. Individual/ Group identities
                                    1. e.g Teen Speak, ethnolects
                                  2. Written: Non-standard orthography, adds a conversational/casual tone, prepositions and determiners ellipted
                                    1. Spoken: discourse particles, pause fillers, ellipsis, atypical phonology, contractions, pparataxis, reduction, prosodic features (stress, pitch, volume etc)
                                    2. (enhance, maintain, affront) positive politeness; (meet) positive face needs
                                      1. Rapport - building
                                        1. intimacy
                                          1. solidarity
                                            1. equality
                                          2. Formal
                                            1. Face needs/ politeness
                                              1. negative politeness
                                                1. emphasises social distance
                                                  1. conventional politeness
                                                    1. euphemisms
                                                      1. political correctness/ political language
                                                    2. establish expertise, authority, obfuscate, confuse
                                                      1. jargon
                                                        1. doublespeak
                                                          1. Standard Australian English
                                                            1. appear educated
                                                              1. morphosyntactically accurate
                                                              2. orthophemistic (neutral term with neutral connotations) terms
                                                              3. cohesion
                                                                1. repetition
                                                                  1. reference
                                                                    1. e.g anaphoric and cataphoric
                                                                  2. generally planned
                                                                    1. coherence
                                                                      1. inference
                                                                        1. consistency
                                                                          1. conventions
                                                                            1. formatting
                                                                            2. elevated and polysyllabic lexemes
                                                                              1. info flow
                                                                                1. given and new info
                                                                                  1. topic - comment
                                                                                    1. end-weight
                                                                                      1. syntactically more complex: exaggeration of the comment
                                                                                    2. fronting
                                                                                      1. place emphasis, extra-positioning something at the front
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