Style
What is the definition of style?
Variation in speech features according to a range of possible aspects of the social context, including features of setting and addresses.
What is the definition of accommodation theory?
A theory to account for how people change their style of speech towards or away from that of their interlocutor.
What is the connection between context,style and social class?
Words that different social classes know and in what style they use them in are interconnected in an interesting way.
What are two factors that are important when identifying the addressee?
Age and social background
What is an interlocutor?
A person who is part of a conversation.
what is observers paradox?
the task of gathering data on natural speech is undermined by the researcher's presence itself.
How can you determine the appropriate style of speaking?
The relationship the speaker has to the addressee is an important point in determining the appropriate style of speaking.
What is speech accommodation?
When speakers like one another or where one speaker has a vested interest in pleasing the other or putting them at ease.
what is Social Dialectology?
A variety of speech associated with a particular social class or occupational group within a society
How can stylistic differences be expressed
Expressed in the verb form that is chosen as well as the specific suffixes, which can indicate the level of politeness and formality.
What is speech divergence?
For whatever reason the speaker chooses to deliberately diverge from their speech style and has no desire to accommodate to their speech.
what is Colloquial style?
the linguistic style used for casual (informal) communication
What factors may contribute to determining the degree of social distance or solidarity between people?
relative age, gender, social roles, whether people work together, or are part of the same family, etc.
What is speech convergence?
When you use the same variety of vocabulary or pronunciation in a way that signals you are on the same wavelength as your addressee.
What is Hypercorrection?
non-standard use of language that results from the over-application of a perceived rule of language-usage prescription.