Get Sign Language Class Registration Form

Some examples of this register include discourse between teachers and students, judges and lawyers, doctors and patients, and between a superior and a subordinate. Casual Register: This register is used among friends and peers, and includes informal language including slang and colloquialisms.

Class is signed by taking both your hands open and facing each other in a 'C' shape.

Martin Joos (1961) identifies five levels of registers: intimate, casual/informal, consultative, formal and frozen in spoken English. Based on this categorization, the videos below show examples of ASL registers or styles when a person introduces oneself in different social settings.

American Sign Language: "register" or "registration" Lay the right "R" hand across the palm-side of the fingers of the left flat-hand. Then lift and move the "R" two inches toward the heel of the left hand and lay the "R" on the palm of the left hand. This version uses a "U" handshape.

Registers vary because the language is used for different purposes, in different contexts and for different audiences. For example, there is a legal register, a register of advertising, registers of banking and a register of weather forecasting.

Register is the use of language (lexicon, syntax, intonation, semantic intent) and specific content that creates a social and psychological distance between the speaker and the audience. It reflects the degree of that social distance we wish to have with others in specific settings.