Purposive Communication: Characteristics of Language
Purposive Communication: Characteristics of Language
Purposive Communication: Characteristics of Language
4 Casual Register
Patois [pa.twaa]
DIFFERENCES BETWEEN FORMAL -Informal language used by
AND INFORMAL REGISTER peers and friends -geographical dialect which differs
from the standard language spoken in
= used slang, vulgar words
a given country
,colloquialism
Formal Register
= Filipino, standard language pattern
5. Intimate Register
-appropriate setting on language
-private communications Creole
-follows accepted format
-reserved for close-family -pidgin language that has become the
-impersonal register (objective)
members or intimate people native language
-aims to inform
=husband , wife bf
Informal Register
TOPIC 3: THE WORLD ENGLISHES
-happens in unexpected setting
SUBGROUPS OF VARIETIES OF
-requires no format LANGUAGE
-frozen in time and = preofessional words Global English – the English defined
content by scholars and linguists
3. Colloquial
- the pledge of allegiance , preamble,
prayer -language that is used in ordinary
conversations Global Spread of English