LANGUAGE REGISTERS

EXAMPLES ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES

Static Shakespeare, -The audience -It is a language
Register King James knows what that does not
Bible, legal the speaker required
documents, will say feedback.
wedding because
vows. utterances that
use frozen
register are
learned
verbatim and
do not change
over time.
-Easy to
memorize.
Formal Presentations, -They will take -You can’t talk to
Register Interviews, you seriously them casually.
Essay, speech, because you -Formal
meetings. shows communication
formality. keeps clear
-Clear and boundaries
reliable between
-using a formal management
channel and employees.
guarantees -Provides limited
that the clarification.
message gets -Lack of personal
out exactly in speaker-listener
its intended relationship.
form.
Consultative Discussions -Can have -Can address
Register between private and also as a formal
accountants exclusive language
and clients, conversation because you’re
judges and between the talking to a
lawyers and two of you. professional so
doctors and must show
patients, formality and
teachers and use appropriate
students. words. You can’t
talk to them
casually.
 Casual -This -It is light and -You can’t use it
Register describes conversational, when talking to
language used rather than a professional;
between feeling lawyer, teacher
friends. practiced or (it depends on
-Talking about purposeful, so the situation),
your day to it is used in doctor.
your family situations -Some people
casually. where we feel might get
-Small talk at ease, are offended if you
interacting talk to them
with people casually because
we are you might say
comfortable words that
with, and they’re not
when we have familiar with.
no worries.
Intimate Husband & -You can have -It requires
Register wife, this “deep feedback that
boyfriend & talk” some people
girlfriend, conversation doesn’t want to
Parent & because you hear. Just want
children. are to vent out and
comfortable to have shoulder
with whom to cry on who
you’re talking. will just listen
-Same with until all
private resentment
conversation, released.
sharing
personal
stories and
problems that
you don’t wish
to be public
knowledge and
you can tell
them any
secrets.