Register & Signalling Vocabulary

Lesson 17. REGISTER AND SIGNALLING VOCABULARY

Jizzakh State Pedagogical Institute
Foreign Languages Department
Subject: DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
Course: 2
Teacher: Sultonbek Mirzaakbarov

Register – A linguistic features of the text that reflect the social context in which it is produced.

• Register – A linguistic features of the text that reflect the social context in which it is produced.
• Signalling vocabulary – The words/vocabulary that we use to hint on what we want to say.
• E.g: the usage of vocabulary such as dilemma/difficulty signal problems

The relationship between vocabulary and register depends on;

• The relationship between vocabulary and register depends on;
• 1. context – textbook/magazine/news report
• 2. author assumption on readers – cultured/educated/fan
• 3. style – written or spoken style
• Most of the text we encountered are towards the written/formal/cultured type of discourse

Here are two types of discourse that more to informal tone.

Using Pseudo – conversational register

• To illustrate the fact that anything that we need to convey is not need to be formal words
• Creating the feeling/expression that there are serious problems might occur.
• See example 3.17, pg 83
• The words underlined are the pseudo-conversational register

Using Idiomatic Phrases

• Used as signals of response
• See example 3.18
• Help to organize the discourse and can signal evaluation
• Provide a good metaphors for the textual segments in suggesting the problem-solution pattern:
• e.g (to be) in a fix, to be up against a brick wall, to have a crack at

Idiomatic phrases and the pseudo – conversational sentences are used in informal situations to present the organising and signalling function just as in the formal vocabulary does in written discourse.

• Idiomatic phrases and the pseudo – conversational sentences are used in informal situations to present the organising and signalling function just as in the formal vocabulary does in written discourse.
• To explain discourse analysis, the most suitable way to explain is in their natural context.

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