REGISTER

REGISTER

1. Identification of a voice from concrete considerations: by what it expresses, by who uses it, by its subject matter and by its era.

2. -Each word has a register ( or registers) in the context. -The set of registers gives us the register (or registers) of the text.

3. TYPES

   • COMMON CONCEPTUAL REGISTER
     • -The CCR of a voice is the first meaning with which it becomes part of the language. E.g.: Pibe (Arg) -> common register for the passing of time, used by the majority of the Argentinean population.
       • -Common Conceptual Register = most common meaning.
         • -Are of a common conceptual register, all the words that have a single definition, a single meaning.
   • SPECIFIC CONCEPTUAL REGISTER
     • -A word has SCR when it is used with a specific meaning in a specific sector of the population.
       • -A voice that has a common register begins to be used by a specific set of people (profession) with a new meaning that is different from the common one. In the end, most of that group understands and uses the new voice with the new meaning.
         • -New meaning = word with a specific conceptual register.
           • -Specific conceptual register -->voices that do not come from a common register, become known and used by the majority of the members of a population.
   • GENERAL REGISTER
     • -Each word belongs to specific fields of language: terms; vulgar, colloquial, cultured, allegorical, technical. -The general register is independent of the "quantity" of the population that knows and uses the voice.
       • VULGAR REGISTER= voices and meanings that are rude, deformed or tawdry, and offensive. Voices that show poverty of vocabulary and slang are also included. E.g.: sudaca, chocho.
         • COLLOQUIAL REGISTER= words and expressions of more common use, barbarisms, deformed turns (understood and used by its population). E.g.: chatear, diga.
           • FORMAL/CULT REGISTER= precise voices, used by enlightened sectors of the population, voices with uncertain meaning for the population and with sporadic use in colloquial language. E.g.: adagio, confinar.
             • ALEGORIC REGISTER= voices used with a new, unconsolidated meaning. Allegorical terms do not only cover the poetic, but also the expressions used with a double meaning or intention, with an allusive connotation of another meaning. E.g.: caja tonta = for "television".
               • TECHNICAL REGISTER = proper of all words in their own meanings of technical fields. E.g.: pestaña = the salient part on the rim of a locomotive wheel.
   • THEMATIC REGISTER
     • - That is to say, it reflects its belonging to the different fields of knowledge. TR, elaborates the specialized vocabularies.
       • -Thematic register=addition of the words to the themes.
         • -Subject words: -->mono thematic: e.g. erina, belonging to medicine, mythology, zoology and it is also a colloquial expression.
           • -->polythematics: they belong to different subjects according to the meaning with which they are used. E.g.: buttress (technical-industrial voice, also belongs to the theme architecture, military, geography).
             • -->athematics: words of common use, which cannot be assigned to any particular subject since they belong to everyone. Exm: pieza, número, vivir.
               • *Difficulty in translation= to transfer the record of an original term to another language in its general and thematic aspects.
       • -Topic= subject or matter. Words belong to one or several subjects. E.g.: biology, literature.
   • PUNCTUAL REGISTER
     • -Reflects the time and territory in which the voice is used
       • 1. Temporal P.R. = establishes the time when a voice is used in function. E.g.: coche de punto.
         • 2. Local P.R. = many words and expressions are used in different ways or with different meanings depending on the territory. E.g.: coger. .
           • 3. Personal P.R. = voice used by an author with a new meaning that the author personally confers. E.g.: Karl Kerényl understands flamen as "life" while other researchers consider it "sacred object".
   • FIGURATIVE REGISTER
     • -Consists of the use of the voice with a concrete content different from the common one. -Figurative record = must be understood and used by the majority of the population.
       • EJM: PAN. --> Common F.R= portion of dough of flour and water that is baked, food. -->Specific F.R.= very delicate metal sheet to gild or silver. -->Figurative F.R= work.
         • -There are no purely figurative voices.

4. 1. DIFFUSION PHASE: neologism, they become dominated.

   • 2. CONSOLIDATION PHASE: consensual and univocal definition.
     • 3. SETTLEMENT PHASE: Academies, literati include it in their vocabulary.
       • 4. FORGETNESS PHASE: loss of knowledge and use of the established voice.