(A-Level English Lang) LANGUAGE AND OCCUPATION

• Occupational register or ‘Jargon’ are words or phrases used solely in a profession or that originated in an occupation
• Occupational register is often linked to roles within a job e.g banksman, SLT
• Codes are jargon specifically made to exclude non-specialists from knowing the information conveyed by the code
• Reasons for codes

  To obfuscate

  To be efficient
• Obfuscate


  Make the meaning unclear
• Efficiency 


  increase speed and urgency
• If Occupational Register is obfuscating

  It violates the maxims of quantity and manner
• If Occupational Register is used for efficiency

  It flouts the maxims of quantity and relation