TYPES OF

SPEECH STYLES
By: Group 4
• Used generally in very formal setting.

• Most formal communicative style for respectful situation.

• Does not require any feedback from the audience.

• Usually uses long sentences with good grammar and vocabulary.

• The use of language is fixed and relatively static. Also known as "fixed speech“.

• It is the most formal communicative style that is often use in respectful situation or
formal ceremony.

• Examples:
national pledge, anthem, school creeds,
marriage ceremonies, speech for a state ceremony
Example of Frozen Style
• Used in speaking to medium to large groups.

• May also be used in single hearers- strangers, older persons, professional.

• Speaker must frame whole sentences ahead before they are delivered.

• Avoids using slang terminologies

• Language is comparatively rigid and has a set, agreed upon vocabulary that is
well documented; is often of a standard variety.

• Examples:
meetings, speeches, school lessons, court, a corporate meeting, at a swearing in
ceremony, in an interview or in a classroom
Example of Formal Style
• Used in semi-formal communication.

• Happens in two-way participation.

• Most operational among other styles.

• Speaker does not usually plan what he wants to say.

• Sentences end to be shorter and spontaneous.

• Examples:
regular conversation at schools, companies, group discussion,
teacher-student, doctor-patient, expert-apprentice
Examples of Consultative Style 
• Language used between friends.

• Often very relaxed and focused on just getting the information out.

• Slangs are quite often used in these instances.

• This style is used in informal situations and language.

• Relationship between speaker and listener is closed.

•Examples:

• casual conversations with friends, family members, chats, phone calls and
messages
Examples of Casual
Style
• Completely private language used within family of very close friends or group

• Uses personal language codes

• Grammar is unnecessary

• Does not need complete language

• Certain terms of endearment, slangs or expressions whose meaning is shared with a small subset
of persons to person

• Intimate language style is the most casual style in communication. 

• Examples:
used between family members, close friends, couple, and all of relation that show intimacy.
Examples of Intimate Style