Style context and register presentation

1. AUTHOR: LLUMIQUINGA GUAMÁN, LUIS IVÁN
“Style, context and register”
SOCIOLINGUISTICS AND ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING
PROFESSOR: McCANDLESS, MICHAEL JOHN
OCTOBER, 2020
ORAL PRESENTATION:

2. Age of
addressee
Social
background
of
addressee
Influence
of the
addressee
on style
• Children: Short and simple
structure, Simpler vocabulary.
• Adults: complex sentences
• Elderly: similar to children (we –
you)
Dear Michael
Thank you very much for the letter you sent
me. It was beautifully written and I enjoyed
reading it…..
Dear Paul
Thanks for your last letter and the subsequent
postcards from exotic resorts…..
• Audience design: same news
and identical context but used
different style (addressees)
Last week the British Prime Minister Mr. David
Cameron met the Australian Premier Ms Julia
Gillard in Canberra…. Their next meeting will
not be for several months.
Las’ week the British Prime Minister Mr. David
Cameron met the Australian Premier Ms Julia
Gillard in Canberra…. Their nex’ meeding won’t
be for sev’ral months.

3. Speech
Convergence
(closer to other
person)
How do speakers
accommodate?
(simple
vocabulary and
grammar)
Speech
Divergence
(language not
used by one’s
addressee)
Stylisation
(high or strong
performance of
some sort)
Accommodation
problems
(Overdo
convergence) Accommodation
theory

4. Context,
style
and
class
Formal contexts
and social roles
Different styles
within an
interview
Colloquial style
or the vernacular
The interaction
of social class
and style
Hypercorrection
• Formality of context. Example: A child’s mother or father is
a teacher. Children call their parents
Mrs Smith or Mr Davis, not Mum or
Dad.
• Informal-casual style i.e: Free conversation
• Formal part- careful style i.e: Reading a passage.
• Casual style
• Colloquial style
Example:
o Animation for objects: he used to
refer a tree. Or she used for animals.
o then me mate arrives.
• Inter-speaker variation.
• Intra-speaker variation.
Example:
o To sound more formal, when giving
a formal speech, use people from a
higher social group as models.
• exaggerate imitating.
Example:
o He asked for you and I.
o It was I who rang you last night.

5. Style in non-Western societies
JAPAN
To express politness and respect:
• Set of grammatical contrasts.
• Negative construction, avoiding dialect words
(analogous to English: wouldn’t you like to….)
• Chinese loan words.

6. IRAN
• Appropriate style for the context and the
addressee must be assessed before.
• Contrast dramatically with other styles of
Speech.
• Reading aloud is not common, instead may be
measured along a different way.

7. JAVA -INDONESIA
JAVANESE:
• Three stylistic levels.
•
• Different pronunciations.
• Different grammatical forms and
different ítems of vocabulary.
• House: omah, grija and dalem
• Five forms for you

8. Register
Particular groups of
people
(baby-talk,
journalese)
For specific situations
(race-callers, sports
commentators, politicians)
Common interests or
jobs.
Situations
(Sport announcer
talk, Syntactic
reduction, Syntactic
inversión)

9. EXAMPLE: Syntactic reduction