Chapter 3: VARIETIES AND REGISTERS OF SPOKEN Written

Cards (8)

  • Culture is the fifth language skill.
  • Linguistic Variation - characteristic of all languages
  • Factors from Written Language
    • Actual situation or context.
    • Purpose of communication.
  • Varieties of Spoken Language
    • Interactional - develop relationship
    • Referential - provide information
    • Expressive - showing the speaker feelings
    • Transactional - getting information
    • Phatic - small, plain talk
  • Written Language
    • Colloquial - Daddy
    • Neutral - Father
    • Literary - Parent
  • Political Correctness - promotes equality
  • Non Politically Correct - Housewife
    Politically Correct - Domestic Engineer
  • CULTURAL APPROPRIATION OF IMAGES - adoption of another culture.
    Cultural Sensitivity - way of behaving