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5 Style, Context and Register S
5 Style, Context and Register S
register
Acknowledgement of country
• Review session 4
• Introduce key concepts and ideas
• Explore speech styles and register
• Introduce communication accommodation
theory
Group 5
Session 4 key takeaway
Key words
speech speech
accommodation
convergence divergence
stylisation
Key ideas
Speech styles
Speech styles
Style
&
Register
Style
Register
(Halliday 1978)
(Kortmann, 2005)
Formality scale
Joos (1961)
1
5
Teaching register
• Try rewriting these utterances for different formality
levels.
The meteorological
A conditions were most
favourable today.
Please speak
B more quietly.
C Hey, dude.
Discourse markers and register
• In which
contexts are
you most likely
to use these
discourse
markers?
Corpus tools and register
• Try looking up discourse markers in a corpus
Enumerative Contrastive Summative
• Em có ý này mn xem được ko. "sth that makes u surprised". những t ừ mang
nghĩa Old Meaning á. mình chưa gặp bao giờ. mình có thể thử tổng hợp
nghĩa của các từ lạ lạ đó ạ!
Reasons for code-
switching
Use your white-voice
Communication Accommodation Theory