Kinds of Register Meaning Use Example

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Name: Ace Jae Bautista

Year/Course/Section: 1 BSIT

LESSON 4: SPOKEN REGISTER

PRACTICE 1: TYPES OF SPOKEN REGISTER


Contrast the different kinds of registers in the grid below. Use words and phrases in bullet
form.

Kinds of Register Meaning Use Example

1. - They don't change, they - Use of language is fixed - All visitors are invited
sometimes include old and relatively static. to proceed upstairs
Frozen grammar or vocabulary. immediately.

2. - Includes academic language - Use when writing for - Wedding vows


from speeches, proclamations professional or academic
Formal and formal announcements. purposes like university
assignments.

3. - Formal and acceptable - Used in professional  - Include discourse


speech often used in settings between teachers and
Consultative professional settings. students, judges and
lawyers, doctors and
patients, and others.

4. - Informal language of a - Used among friends and - Talking with friends


broader but still well-defined peers, and includes informal talking with friends.
Casual social group, and includes language including slang
- Slang
slang, elliptical and elided and colloquialisms.
sentences, and frequent
interruption.

5. - Reserved for close family  - Use reserved for close - Husband, wife
members such as parents and family members such as
Intimate children and siblings, or parents and children and - Boyfriend /girlfriend
intimate people such as siblings, or intimate people
-Pets
spouses. such as spouses
 
PRACTICE 2: BEYONG READING

Write a short dialog highlighting one register. Limit your dialog to 2-3 characters with at least
6 exchanges. Use the space below for your answer.

Casual Register

Boy: Hi!

Girl: Hi!

Boy: How are you?

Girl: Not Bad!

Boy: What’s new with you?

: What’s up?

Girl: Not Much

Boy: Bye.. See you tomorrow

Girl: Bye

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