When reading the instruction for the writing sample analysis, one topic I was not feeling so comfortable with is the register. It seems that Chapter 10 helped me figure out what register is. My understanding is that register means different types of language characteristics in different social situations. I hope I got it right.
It is interesting to know that language repertoire refers to the set of language varieties that present in the speaking and writing patterns of a speech community. I was wondering if language repertoire is like a stock of a certain community’s language patterns. People use this language with what has been exist in this storage. This storage has different marks styles, in lexical, phonological, grammatical, and semantic. When people in this community are interacting with some other people for some particular purposes in different location with different mode, they switch from one language to another. When they are writing, they may use different language than they usually say in everyday life. This contributes to the fact that oral and written languages have their own styles. However, in different types of writing, the registers are different, too. The example that Finegan present in this Chapter is a legalese, we can see the register features of this type of text. As for the oral example, what we read is an interview. I think its style must be different from that of an impromptu speech.
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Yes Ling even I was confused about the proper definition of register. You are right that register means a kind of language which is use according to the context. The register is always different according to the context. The register which is used between father and son is not exactly appropriate to use between a professor and a student.
I think you're right. :-)
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