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Varieties and Registers of
Spoken and Written
Language
Reporter:
AZHIA NAVAS
BSED1- SOCIAL STUDIES

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Objective: To be able to apply the varieties
and registers of spoken and written language
in the proper context.

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Engaging: Putting Things in the Right
Perspective
How do you greet your best friend?
Your mother? Your teacher?
Do your ways of greetings these
people vary?

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Initializing!!!
The spoken mode is often associated with everyday registers while
the written mode is strongly associated with academic registers.
However, this is not always true. For instance, in everyday
communication, face- to – face conversations are usually
supplemented by text messaging. In academic contexts , significant
form of oral communication are used along with written
communication. Significantly, both everyday and academic
communications are characterized by multi- modality other use of
multiple modes of communication, including spoken, written modes,
and images, music, videos, gestures etc.

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What is variety?
- A variety refers to any of a
language which can be sufficiently
delimited from one another

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What is Register?
According to Nordquist (2018) a register is:
- Defined as the way a speaker uses language
differently in different circumstances
- Determined by factors as social occasion, context,
purpose, and audience
- Determine the vocabulary, structures and some
grammar in one’s writing and even in one’s oral
discourse.

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Varieties of Spoken and Written Language
Lin (2016) presents the following nature of language
variation as prescribed by most linguists based on
the ideas of Malhoob (2014).
1.Language varies when communicating with people
within (local) and outside (global) our community.
2.Languages varies in speaking and in written.
3.Language varies in everyday and specialized
discourses.

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1.Language varies when communicating with people
within (local) and outside (global) our community.
a.Pidgin- a new language which develops in
situations where speakers of different
languages need to communicate but do not
share a common language.
b.Creole- a pidgin that becomes the first
language of the children and the mother tongue
of the a community

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c. Regional Dialect- is not a distinct language
but a variety of a language spoken in a
particular area of a country.
d. Minority Dialect- a variety used as a marker of
identity, usually alongside a standard variety, by
members of a particular minority ethnic group.
e. Indigenized Varieties- are spoken mainly as
second languages in ex- colonies with
multilingual populations.

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2. Languages varies in speaking and in written.
a. Frozen – it refers to historic or
communication that is intended to remain
unchanged, like a constitution or a prayer.
b. Formal- is used in professional, academic,
or legal settings where communications is
expected to be respectful, uninterrupted, and
restrained. Slang is never usd and
contractions are rare.

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a. Frozen – it refers to historic or
communication that is intended to remain
unchanged, like a constitution or a prayer.
b. Formal- is used in professional, academic,
or legal settings where communications is
expected to be respectful, uninterrupted, and
restrained. Slang is never usd and
contractions are rare.

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Mahboob (2014) identifies eight different domains in which language varies depending on
the combinations of different values on the three dimensions (field, tenor and mode) of
context of communication.
The first four domains include language variations that reflect local usage done in one local
language or multiple local languages depending on the context. They vary in the following
ways;
• 1. Local everyday written- this may include instances of local everyday
written usage found in the neighborhood posters (e.g. a poster
looking for transients/ bed spacers.)
• 2. Local everyday oral may occur in local communication among
neighbors in everyday, informal and local varieties of languages.
• 3. Local specialized written- an example of local specialized written
usage can be found in the publications and web sites of local societies
such as the Baguio Midland Courier.

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4. Local specialized oral involves specialized discourses. For example, in
a computer shop in the neighborhood, specialized local usage can be
found (e.g. specialized computer game- related vocabulary is used)
On the other hand, the other four domains involve global usage.
These four domains of language usage differ from the first four
domains since they refer to contexts of language usage where
participants need to communicate with people not sharing their local
ways of using language.
5. Global everyday written avoids local colloquialisms to make the text
accessible to wider communities of readers. This can be found in
international editions of newspaper and magazines.

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6. Global everyday oral may occur in intersections between
people coming from different parts of the world when they talk
about everyday casual topics.
7. Global specialized written expands to as many readers
internationally, hence the non- usage of local colloquial
expressions (e.g. international research journal articles)
8. Global specialized oral occurs when people from different parts
of the world discuss specialized topics in spoken from (e.g. paper
presentation sessions in an international academic conference.)