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. • 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; 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 Using Pseudo – conversational register Using Idiomatic Phrases • 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 • 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. • To explain discourse analysis, the most suitable way to explain is in their natural context.
