PURPOSIVE COMMUNICATION
NINE WORST BODY LANGUAGE
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1. Communication
- Process which involves a sender
who is required to compose a
message
2. Sender
- Transfer message in a format
intelligible to his intended audience
3. Methods or Channels of
Communication
- Face to Face conversation
- A telephone call via a mobile phone
or landline
- Private chat messages
- Use of various online applications
4. Decoding
- Is engaged by the person with
whom you are communicating
5. Internet Slang
- lol, brb, ttyl and 2day
6. Feedback
- Completes the communication
process
7. COMMUNICATION PROCESS
8. High-Level
- Merriam Webster Dictionary
defined ‘high—level’ as a great
importance or high rank
9.
 Excessive Nodding
- this undermines how focused we
are by nodding like a bobble
 Fidgeting
- this is the so called “nervous
energy”
 Hands behind the back
- This communicates
unapproachability and closed-
mindedness
 Mismatched Expressions
- This is not going to translate your
words well: when you are
expressing passion with face in
deadpan
 Shifty Eyes
- Suggests that you are lying or you
are uncertain
 Staring
- Too much of this can interpreted as
aggressive or worse, creepy
 Chopping and Pointing
- This can mean you are cutting or
chopping connections
 Breaking Eye Contact
- This express discomfort
 Bad Posture
- Leaning back can be translated as
laziness; leaning forward can
express aggressiveness
10. HOW TO MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR
PAST EXPERIENCES FOR ANN
INTERVIEW SESSION
 Keep it Relevant
- Make sure to impress the
interviewer that you have
participated actively in projects
 Mix it up a little bit
- Talk about how skillful you are on
specific tasks
 Downplay negatives, play up
positives
 - Create an impression to your  Letters of Complain
interviewer that the short time you  Reports
spent in your previous job has been  Official Speeches
all worth it  Announcements
 Align your answer to the  Professional Email
company’s spirit Messages
- Come to the interview with the
Note: In using the formal
knowledge of the company’s
language register, the following
mission and vision for itself
are to be observed.
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o DO NOT USE
11. THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES CONTRACTIONS
 June 4, 2017 o SPELL OUT NUMBERS
- Terrorist attack in the London LESS THAN ONE
bridge HUNDRED
 April 20, 2017 o AVOID USING TOO
- Paris Shooting MUCH PASSIVE VOICE
- Karim Cheurfi—gunman, who o ACOID USING SLANG,
already served 15 years in prison IDIOMS
 April 7, 2017 EXAGGERATIONS, AND
- Stockholm attack CLICHES
- Rakmat Akilov—from uzbeskstan o AVOID ABBREVIATIONS
was apprehended and charged on AND ACRONYMS
account of the crime o FORMAL WRITING
 Westminster Attack REQUIRES THE GOOD
- Khalid Masood—mowed down TRANSITION WORDS
civilians in Westminster bridge o ALWAYS WRITE IN
 China SENTENCES
- Richter Scale 7.0 earthquake on o WRITE LONGER, MORE
April 22, 2013 COMPLEX SENTENCES
 President Joseph Estrada  INFORMAL LANGUAGE
- Corrupt in his administration REGISTER
- Register that we use when we
CHAPTER 3 communicate with our friends and
12. MOST COMMON LANGUAGE family
REGISTERS - INFORMAL WRITING INCLUDES
 Personal Emails
 FORMAL LANGUAGE REGISTER
 Text Messages
- Appropriate for professional writing
 Short Notes
and letters
 Tweets
- Formal Writing—the most
challenging type of writing that  Facebook posts
 Blogs
requires the formal register
 Friendly Letters
- FORMAL WRITING INCLUDES:
 Chat messages
 Business letters
  Diaries and Journals - “You are what you speak and your
Note: The Informal register place of origin is the most
accepts: important identity factor”
o Slang and Clichés
o Figurative Language
o Symbols and
Abbreviations
o Acronyms
o Incomplete
Sentences
o Jokes
o Personal Opinions
o Active and Passive
Voice
o Extra Punctuation

 NEUTRAL LANGUAGE REGISTER

- Neither formal and informal
- Tone that is used when expressing
facts devoid of emotion
- NEUTRAL REGISTER INCLUDES:
 REVIEWS
 ARTICLES
 SOME LETTERS
 SOME ESSAYS
 TECHNICAL WRITING
13. LANGUAGE REGISTER FOR THE
LINGUISTS
- Tenor
- Tone
- Style
14. THOMAS BERTRAM REID
- First used the term “register”—
variation according to the user
affected by other variables like
social background, geography,
gender, age, etc.
15. ENGLISH AS A SPECIFIC LANGUAGE
 AMERICAN ENGLISH (AmE)
 AUSTRALIAN ENGLISH (AuE)
 BLACK ENGLISH
 BRITISH ENGLISH (BrE)
16. Dr. Urszula Clark