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Style, Context and Register Bab 10
Style, Context and Register Bab 10
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1.Septyarista M.
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2.Dika Resty F.
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3.Nugroho Habibi
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1. Addressee as an influence on
style
People use considerably more standard forms to those
they dont know well, and more vernacular forms to
their friends.
Age of Addressee
Uttered with high pitch and a sing-song intonation there
is little doubt about the appropriate addressee of
utterances.
People generally talk differently to children (short and
grammatically simple) and to adults (more complex
sentences).
2. Accomodation Theory
A. Speech Convergence
Converging towards the speech of another person and usually this is
a polite speech strategy.
C. Speech Divergence
Tends to happen when a person wants to show his /her
cultural distinctiveness, social status, ethnic identity, etc.
Deliberately choosing a language not used by ones addresse.
Using a higher frequency of vernacular forms.
People who aspire to a higher social status will diverge upwards
from the speech of those from the same social class.
Speech divergence does not always reflect a speakers
negative attitudes towards the addresse.
We know where is going but were denied
D. Accomodation problems
It is possible to overdo convergence and offend listeners. Over
convergent behaviour may be perceived as patronishing and
ingratiating.
In general, then, reactions to speech convergence and divergence
depend on the reasons people attribute for the convergence or
divergence.
5. Register
Register is kind of jargon which a group of specialist often
develop to talk about their speciality. It could be described as an
occupational style.
Some linguists describe this kind of language variaton as
register variation.
Others use term register more narrowly to describe the
specific vocabulary associated with different occupational groups.
Syntactic reduction
There is no loss of meaning as a result of this syntactic
reduction, since the omitted elements are totally predictable in
the context.
This feature of sports announcers often omit the subject noun or
pronoun.
Syntactic inversion
Reversal or inversion of the normal word order is another
feature of sports announcer talk. This device allows the
announcer to foreground or focus on the action and provides him