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• describes the various styles of language available for

writing or speaking

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• Every Language has 5 language registers and 5
language styles

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• Deciding which oAudience
language register is
appropriate oTopic
depends on the:

oSituation

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• I use my public voice when I am at school, at work, or
at church with friends or strangers.

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• When I am with my friends and close family in a
“casual setting”, I can be less formal.

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• A person can go from one register to the next register without any
conflicts

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• Frozen
• Formal
• Consultative
• Casual
• Intimate

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• Frozen
• Formal
• Consultative

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• Language that rarely or
never changes

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• Pledge of Allegiance
• Words to a song
• Poetry
• Prayer
• laws

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• One-way communication

• Complete sentences

• Focus on form

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• Presentations

• Academic Paper

• Essays in school

• Used at work, school, and

business

• Interviews

• TAKS

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• Wat up !!! Holla back.

• Hello Ms. James. Please contact me at your earliest

opportunity.

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• Two way communication used in conversation

• No past experience with that person

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• Strangers who interact

• Adults at work

• Teachers with students

• Talking with lawyer or doctor

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• Casual
• Intimate

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• A language used by friends

• Past experience with that person

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• Slang

• Talking with friends

• Personal letter to a friend

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• Language shared between couples, twins, very close
friends

• Language of sexual harassment.

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• Finish each other’s sentences

• Very close relationship

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