KarakterløftetRegister, Style and Language Strategies
Learn to adapt language to situation and purpose – formal, semi-formal and informal register, politeness, precise vocabulary and the strategies behind them.
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Two competence aims live here: using appropriate strategies for reading, listening, speaking and writing, and using a rich, precise vocabulary adapted to the situation. The core tool is register: formal, semi-formal and informal English differ in vocabulary, contractions, phrasal verbs and sentence structure – and choosing the wrong register costs more than grammar errors, because it signals misjudging the situation. Politeness works differently in English than in Norwegian: more indirectness, more softening. Strong answers show the same message rewritten across registers.
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