Style refers to the variation in a person's speech based on the situation, person being addressed, and topic. It can change depending on these factors. Register refers to the language used for a particular occupation, activity, or social situation. Context refers to the shared background understanding between speakers that allows them to communicate effectively. The document provides definitions and examples of style, register, and context from various linguistic scholars to explain these concepts.

1. Style, context, and
register

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3. What is style ?
Style is the variant in a person’s speech or writing. It is how an
individual chooses to express oneself, and also how people
switch from one style to another according to :
• Situation
• The person or person’s being addressed
• Topic discussed

4. Wolfram and schilling estes (1998 : 214) define language style quite
similarly, as “ variation in the speech of individual speakers”
Bell (1997: 240 ) is somewhat clearer in emphasizing the linguistic
lements :
Style is “the range of variation within the speech of an individual
speaker”
By these statement above, so we can conclude that’s style is the variants
in the speech which is used in certain situation or form of the language
used for the same purpose under certain circumstances.

5. What is register ?
•is the language used at any given moment; and depend on: what do you
do, by whom and by what means.
•Register: a way of speaking a language which is associated with a
particular occupational or activity group. Example:
● field of law and justiceThere is a terminological distinction between
register and style. Both are associated with a specific speech situation
but whereas register often refers to the specific vocabulary chosen and
expected in connection with a particular speech situation, style includes
grammatical variation.

6. Example of using style
● Example : When talking to peers in daily life, stylethe
speech used is more relaxed and tends to be informal
● For example : “how do you do this ?” but if you talk to
the lecture, the style of speech used must be more formal
and orderly,
● For example : “sorry sir , how do you solve this
problem?”

7. The function of style
This sociolinguistic tradition of investigating style :
as an aspect of symbolic speech variation differs from that of
anthropological linguistics or ethnography of communication, which
primarily focuses on ‘ways of speaking’ – including styles and registers
–
as expressing particular social functions, events, or relationships (though
it also includes careful linguistic description).

8. What is register ?
•is the language used at any given moment; and depend on: what do you
do, by whom and by what means.
•Register: a way of speaking a language which is associated with a
particular occupational or activity group. Example:
● field of law and justiceThere is a terminological distinction between
register and style. Both are associated with a specific speech situation
but whereas register often refers to the specific vocabulary chosen and
expected in connection with a particular speech situation, style includes
grammatical variation.

9. Some types of register
1. Formal Register: A type of
register that incorporates
Standard American English
and is used by professionals
or in situations where people
are not familiar with one
another.
2. Informal Register: i s A
type of register used with more
familiar people in casual
conversation. In the informal
style of register, contractions
are used more often, rules of
negation and agreement may
be altered, and slang or
colloquialisms may be used.
3. Over-formal Register:
A type of register that can be
characterized by the use of a
false high- pitched nasal
voice.
4. Motherese: is A type of
register characterized by
high-pitched,elongated
sounds and "sing-
song"intonation. It is used
when people speak to
infants,young children, or
pets.

10. What is context ?
● Context is a concept, a schematic structure
that exists in the mind of each human mind.
Context can also be sourced from previous
events and formed psychologically for each
individual.
(H.G. Widdowson: 19)

11. Example :
● When the speaker talks about “Touring”, and the listener also
responds to the conversation and their communication process continues.
● Such a situation means that the speaker and listener have the same
context about "Touring", so there is no missed communication

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