Q1 MOD 7

In discussions at work, with friends, strangers, etc., there are unwritten rules that are followed when
speaking English. These unwritten rules are called “register use”.

REGISTER - Type of language used when speaking to others

VERTICAL REGISTER - Language used varying in degrees of formality

HORIZONTAL REGISTER - Jargon, slang, etc. used in communicating with your friends, colleagues, etc.

Communication - the act of transferring information from one place, person or group to another.

Components of COMMUNICATION: one sender, a message and a recipient.

What affects communication? .. emotions, the cultural situation, the medium used to communicate,
our location, generation gap/age gap.

Frozen/Static Register: This register rarely or never changes. Examples of frozen register include the
Pledge of Allegiance or the Preamble to the Constitution.

Formal/Academic Register: This register includes academic language from speeches, proclamations
and formal announcements.

Consultative Register: This register is formal and acceptable speech often used in professional
settings. Some examples of this register include discourse between teachers and students, judges and
lawyers, doctors and patients, and between a superior and a subordinate.

Casual Register: This register is used among friends and peers, and includes informal language
including slang and colloquialisms. Casual register is often used among friends, teammates, etc.

Intimate Register: This register is reserved for close family members such as parents and children and
siblings, or intimate people such as spouses.

Q1M8
But what is a jargon? Like a secret “insider” language, jargon is a terminology only understood by
people in a certain group.
However, jargon is like a type of shorthand between members of a particular group of people, often
involving words that are meaningless outside of a certain context.

Different types of Jargons

 Professional
 Industry
 Business
 Technical
 Acronyms
 Codes
 Organizational
 Teams
 Culture
 Sports
 Medical
 Legalese
 Academic

Professional Language that is specific to a profession.

Industry Terms used by an industry such as the use of rack rate in the travel industry to refer to the
regular price of a room before discounts. It is typically understood that it is rare for anyone to actually
pay the rack rate.

Business jargons are terms that are used across multiple industries and professions. For example,
management, busswords such as best practice.

Technical Vocabulary that emerges around technology including words to describe the design,
operations, maintenance and the use of technology.

Acronyms A common feature of jargon is the use of acronyms.

Codes In some cases, jargon includes non- language element such as numerical codes.

Organizational Firms often develop their own language to describe things such as systems, applications,
processes.

Teams It is possible for extended vocabularies to emerge in a single team that is unfamiliar to their
organization or anyone else.

Culture Language is an element of culture that is also generated by culture at the level of society,
traditional culture.

Sports Each sport has its own vocabulary to describe everything from equipment to strategy.
Medical Medicine is an extremely board and complex domain that has its own language that is
understood by researchers, doctors, nurses, etc.

Legalese Legal documents and communications demand precision and consistency, completeness and
soundness that require a unique vocabulary, syntax and semantics.

Academic Sciences and other academic fields typically have a distinct vocabulary that is used to capture
broad abstract concepts and fine details that are specific to a domain.

Q2MOD 1
BACKGROUND: The title of this poem roughly translates to “Old Long Since” or “fo r ol d ti me’s
sake” . This poem pays tribute to the greatness of friendship and celebrates the journey and memories
that strengthened the bond that friends shared. It also emphasizes on the idea that friendship endures
distance that even if friends are separated physically, the bond that they share keep them together in
thought and in feelings. The poem narrates memories of hardship and challenges that friends were only
able to go through because they are together. It used imageries to symbolize the journey of life of
friend as they grow old and apart. As a part of tradition, this dramatic poem is usually sung d u ri ng th e
New Y ea r’s Cel eb ra ti on

BACKGROUND: This dramatic poem is paving tribute and honor to people of history who are to be
considered “truly great”. It also explained the characteristics of great people which separates them
from the rest and make them different. It also explained the challenges that great people had overcame
to become great. It explained how these great people demand to be remembered through their legacy
that they had left for us. It asks of us to show respect and reverence to these “truly great” people as
they had contributed to the world that we belong today. The author used imagery to express his
perception of how we should celebrate the lives of great people and how indebted we are to them and
how he thinks that we should aim to be like them in our own ways.

BACKGROUND: Dr. Martin Luther King JR. was a social activist and Baptist minister who played a key
role in the American civil rights movement from the mid-1950s until his assassination in 1968. King
sought equality and human rights for African Americans, the ecoomically disadvantaged and all victims
of injustice through peaceful protest. He delivered one of the most powerful statements of the late 60’s
when he preached his famous “DRUM MAJOR INSTINCT” sermon in one of his masses that gives
GREATNESS a new meaning.