LESSON 3: SPEECH STYLE Flashcards
The most casual speech style, used by family, close friends, and partners.
Intimate
Have a lot of experiential knowledge in common and does not care about grammar and pronunciation.
Intimate
Speech style used when conversing with friends. It uses trendy words and phrases, and speaks in incomplete or elided sentences.
Casual
Connected to social interaction as a function of communication.
Casual
Question and answer, commonly used between teachers and students in a discussion or when you are in a doctor’s appointment.
Consultative
A conversational style in which the speaker constantly observes the listener’s verbal and nonverbal cues for feedback.
Consultative
What the speaker will say next depends on the feedback provided by the listener.
Consultative
Connected to information as a function of communication.
Consultative
More complex sentence structures, lack of usage of slang terms; commonly used in business meetings.
Formal
Requires careful attention to producing well- formed sentences and coherent, very logically-organized speech.
Formal
Sentences or words that do not change.
Frozen
Very formal style not really intended to give a particular message but to allow a reader to find many meanings for oneself.
Frozen
Exists as literature for a given community
Frozen
