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