My Week Observing Register at a Law Firm
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My Week Observing Register at a Law Firm
Monday at a trainee solicitor's week at a city law firm: I watched a partner shift from formal register to informal banter in one breath. The client letter used pursuant to; the phone call said under, and nobody flagged the regional vocabulary. Rita told me pragmatic appropriateness is not snobbery but audience design.
Tuesday: a trainee inserted sort of into a witness statement, breaking hedging by register conventions. Jon corrected the discourse markers: Moreover in the brief, but anyway in the debrief. By Friday I could hear sociolect markers and know which register lane each speaker occupied.
Even subtle register shifts in a trainee solicitor's week at a city law firm altered how hedging was interpreted by stakeholders. Even subtle register shifts in a trainee solicitor's week at a city law firm altered how hedging was interpreted by stakeholders.
