Understanding Speech Context, Speech Act, and Communicative Strategies

Question 1

factors affected by a shift in speech context, speech style, speech act, and communicative strategy

Answer 1

language form, duration of interaction, relationship of speaker, role and responsibility of speaker, message, delivery

Question 2

refers to the formality or the informality of the language used and it involves the choice of words and how sentences or utterances are structured

Answer 2

language form

Question 3

more casual and spontaneous. It is used when communicating with friends or family either in writing or in conversation. It is used when writing personal emails, text messages and in some business correspondence.

Answer 3

informal language

Question 4

less personal than informal language. It is used when writing for professional or academic purposes like university assignments. does not use colloquialisms, contractions, or first-person pronouns such as ‘I’ or ‘We’.

Answer 4

formal language

Question 5

the amount of time a conversation takes between and among communicators

Answer 5

duration of interaction

Question 6

this determines the speaker’s speech style towards whom they are communicating with

(speech style - intimate, frozen, consultative, casual, or formal

Answer 6

relationship of speaker

Question 7

this will depend on the purpose and context of the communication (to inform, to persuade, to entertain, etc.)

Answer 7

role and responsibility of the speaker

Question 8

the content of the speech; may be facts, opinions, feelings, order, suggestions, and questions

Answer 8

message

Question 9

the manner of delivery involving verbal and nonverbal cues (extemporaneous, impromptu, memorized, manuscript)

Answer 9

delivery

Question 10

how do you achieve communicative competence

Answer 10

consider speech context, speech style, speech act, and communicative strategies

Question 11

accounts for the background and purpose of a discourse
- assumes a more or less direct relationship between the situational, societal, political, or cultural environments in which the communication transaction occurs
- type of audience, circumstance, and setting are taken into consideration
- interpersonal, intrapersonal, public, mass

Answer 11

speech context

Question 12

it is the distinct variations or forms of the language used for the same purpose in a particular situation or the form of language that the speaker uses. It is characterized by the degree of formality.
- intimate, casual, consultative, formal, frozen

Answer 12

speech style

Question 13

refers not only to the utterance (locutionary act) but also to the intention (illocutionary) and response (perlocutionary) to a specific situation for an intended discourse impact.
- this is also done to help express the intention of the speaker and to elicit a response from the listener

Answer 13

speech act

Question 14

used to begin a conversation and maintain its flow
- nomination, restriction, turn taking, topic control, topic shifting, repair, termination

Answer 14

communicative strategies