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Language Registers
What is a Register?
 describes
the various styles of language
available for writing or speaking
Language Registers
 Every
Language has 5 language registers and
5 language styles
How do you decide which language
register is appropriate to use?
 Deciding
which
language
register is
appropriate
depends on the:
o
Audience
o
Topic
o
Situation
Public Voice
I
use my public voice when I am at school,
at work, or at church with friends or
strangers.
Private Voice
 When
I am with my friends and close
family in a “casual setting”, I can be less
formal.
The Universal Rule
A
person can go from one register to the
next register without any conflicts
Five Language Registers
 Frozen
 Formal
 Consultative
 Casual
 Intimate
Public Voice
 Frozen
 Formal
 Consultative
Frozen Register

Language that rarely
or never changes
Examples of Frozen Register





Pledge of Allegiance
Words to a song
Poetry
Prayer
laws
Formal Register
 One-way
communication
 Complete
 Focus
sentences
on form
Examples of Formal Register

Presentations

Academic Paper

Essays in school

Used at work, school, and
business

Interviews

TAKS
Which would I send to your parent?
 Wat
up !!! Holla back.
 Hello
Ms. James. Please contact me at
your earliest opportunity.
Consultative Register
 Two
way communication used in
conversation
 No
past experience with that person
Examples of Consultative Register
 Strangers
 Adults
who interact
at work
 Teachers
 Talking
with students
with lawyer or doctor
Private Voice
 Casual
 Intimate
Casual Register
A
language used by friends
 Past
experience with that person
Examples of Casual Register
 Slang
 Talking
with friends
 Personal
letter to a friend
Intimate Register
 Language
shared between couples, twins,
very close friends
 Language
of sexual harassment.
Examples of Intimate Register
 Finish
 Very
each other’s sentences
close relationship

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