VARIETIES AND REGISTERS OF

SPOKEN AND WRITTEN

LANGUAGE

By: Lorilee F. Serato, MEd

Faculty, College of Arts and Sciences
University of Antique
 TOPICS FOR GROUP OUTPUT

Group 1: General Principles of Effective Communication and Ethics of

Communication
Group 2: Tips in Making PowerPoint Presentation
Group 3: How to Deal with Conflicts (Conflict Resolution)
Group 4: Subject-Verb Agreement
Group 5: How to Have Meaningful Conversations
Group 6: The Key Steps to Successful Speech Writing
Group 7: Techniques and strategies in delivering a speech
Group 8: How to Overcome Anxiety or Stage Fright
 ADD-ONS

•COMMUNICATION MODES:
1. Face-to-face interaction
2. Video
3. Audio
4. Text-based
THE DIALOGS BELOW ARE TAKEN FROM SCENARIOS
IN THE WORKPLACE. TELL WHO ARE THE
CONVERSATION PARTICIPANTS FROM THE OPTIONS
PROVIDED. WRITE ONLY THE LETTER OF YOUR
ANSWER.

•a. Colleagues / Friends

•b. Employee to Manager
•c. Manager to Employee
1. I'm afraid we're having some
problems with the inventory report
you submitted last week. I would like
to see you in my office this afternoon.
Answer: ____
2. Where did you hang out
last weekend?
Answer: ____
3. We've been waiting for
you. Are you coming or not?
Answer: ____
4. Excuse me, would it be
possible for me to go home
early this afternoon? I have a
doctor's appointment.
Answer: ____
5. Well, we went to this beautiful
beach in San Diego. The sand is
so fine and white, water is pristine
and the ambience is so relaxing.
Answer: ____
6. Please be sure to proofread
your work prior to submission.
Answer: ____
7. Excuse me, Glenn, would
you mind lending me P100 for
lunch? I'm short of cash today.
Answer: ____
8. How true are the rumors
that you are dating the
manager's daughter?
Answer: ____
9. You are exceptionally
talented. I'm sure you'll be an
asset in our company.
Answer: ____
10. Excuse me, Ms. Mendez,
could you help me with this
report for a moment?
Answer: ____
 LANGUAGES

• The principal method of human

communication, either written or
spoken words.
SPOKEN AND WRITTEN LANGUAGE

•Speaking and writing are the most

important communicative tools among
human beings (Alsaawi, 2019).
 SPOKEN LANGUAGE
•is a language produced by
articulate sounds or manual
gestures, as opposed to written
languages.
 WRITTEN LANGUAGE
•refers to a language that is
written down and used for
recording events, ideas and
feelings.
 LANGUAGE VARIETIES

• refer to different forms of a language that may

exist within a speech community.
• The term language variety is used to describe
the many manifestations of the English
language.
 VARIETIES OF LANGUAGE

•In sociolinguistics, language variety—

also called lect—is a general term for
any distinctive form of a language or
linguistic expression.
 WORLD ENGLISH VS. WORLD ENGLISHES

• World English – the Standard English

- a lingua franca by the international
business community

• World Englishes – a term for diverse varieties of English

- English ownership by local English speakers
WORLD ENGLISHES
 WORLD ENGLISHES

1. The Inner Circle with member countries who

speak English as their Native Language (ENL);
2. The Outer Circle with member countries who
speak English as their Second Language (ESL); and
3. The Expanding Circle with countries who
consider English as a Foreign Language (EFL).
 WORLD ENGLISHES
English Variety Term Meaning
1. Singapore English: Actsy show off
Missy Nurse
Chop Rubber stamp
Graduate mothers graduate or well-educated
married women, encouraged to
have more children and
accorded certain privileges in
Singapore, compared to non-
graduate mothers
 WORLD ENGLISHES

English Variety Term Meaning

2. Philippine English: Deep puristic or hard to understand.
Stick Cigarette
High blood Tense or upset
Studentry Student body
Balikbayan box Box where Filipinos returning from
abroad put all their shopping
Promdi From the province
 WORLD ENGLISHES

English Variety Term Meaning

3. Malaysian English: antilog a male hated by a girl
Popcorn a loquacious person
Slambar relax
Day bugs those who come to attend school
but do not live in residence halls
 PIDGIN

•A grammatically simplified form of a

language, used for communication
between people not sharing a
common language.
 CHARACTERISTICS OF A
PIDGIN

• An auxiliary language.
• A new language resulted by language contact.
• A mixture of two languages or a mixed language.
• Not fully formed.
• Does not have complicated grammar rules.
• A simplified version of the two languages combined.
 EXAMPLES OF A PIDGIN

• Taglish (Philippines)
• Conyo (new Filipino Pidgin)
• Nigerian Pidgin
• Tok Pisin (spoken in Papua New Guinea)
 CREOLE

•A mother tongue formed from the

contact of two languages through an
earlier pidgin stage.
 CHARACTERISTICS OF A
CREOLE

•Has a consistent system of grammar.

•Possesses large stable vocabularies.
•Acquired by children as their native
language.
•A fully functional language.
•Starts as a pidgin.
 EXAMPLES OF A CREOLE

•Haitian Creole
•Louisiana Creole
•Jamaican Patois
•Mauritian Creole
•Papiamento
 LANGUAGE REGISTER

It is the use of language for a particular

purpose or in a particular setting, that
is, its level of formality
 LANGUAGE REGISTERS

•Formal Register
This is used in formal speaking and writing
situations, e.g. president's SONA that requires a
highly polished manuscript, a job application
letters, business proposals, and the like.
 LANGUAGE REGISTERS

•Informal Register
This is more casual in tone, and is
most appropriate for people with whom
you have established a more personal
relationship as in the case of friends and
relatives.