Everything that is produced non-verbally and randomly, the cues, speech in action, and word choice can change to corporate status for each being. Every single word and its pronunciation, how a written piece of paper and spoken information are going to be perceived, is going to bank on the Social Environment or conversational setting. We as communicators can transform significantly our speech patterns. The styles implied in current conversation are prone to differ across the world and culturally. A very good example could be a professor that is used to asking questions about any specific topic to a student that is from another culture and that person tends to answer up to it looking down upon him saying Yes or No, whereas a student from Venezuela tends to look up to the professor asking that question or arise his eyes to keep eye contact with him. This interaction can change depending on where you live and the social behaviour that that society has.
Register is almost the same, but it involves how we see speech and how we make use of it in the real world. Everything is going to be determined by the degree of formality and the relationship among the people that generate the talking. The level of vocabulary and production of written language that I do at university is academic and the one given at home is less polite or more informal, I focus on using idioms, slang and other kinds of phrases that make me feel more comfortable and reliable on self-confidence, that is, if I make a mistake, who cares? You´ve got listeners or your fellow peers to have a heart to heart talk, you commonly use an easy way of speaking. Except that, when you are fed up with everybody, you tell each one of them words rudely. Understanding and being aware of REGISTER AND THE STYLES permitted in time will help students clear their minds up in regard to the appropriateness of how, when, where and with whom about what topic to treat.
Written by Eduardo Becerrit.
Eduardo Becerrit 