How would you describe the following in terms of style and register? "Please go and muck out the bay's stable."
Frozen style: Agricultural register
Consultative style: Stable register
Casual style: Stable register
Informal style: Stable register
How would you describe the following in terms of style and register? No Trolleys Beyond This Point
Frozen style: Transport register
Consultative style: Transport register
Formal style: Shopping register
Casual style: Transport register
How would you describe the following in terms of style? "I'll cook the usual Friday dinner, if you like, love."
Consultative style
Casual style
Intimate style
Formal style
How you would describe the following in terms of style? "Mary and Ali Smith request the pleasure of your company at an informal celebration"
Casual style
Frozen style
Consultative style
Formal style
Style affects pronunciation because ...
In consultative style we avoid the use of weak forms
Less formal styles require less care in pronunciation
In formal settings we choose our words carefully
Less formal settings more readily allow the use of regional and class accents
Academic register uses modality differently from football register by ...
... avoiding modal verbs altogether
... using 'might have' rather than 'could have'
... avoiding the use of 'can' to mean permission
... using more hedging such as "It is arguable that ..."
"He takes the red into the centre and that sets up the black into the corner." and "Smith to Jones, crosses to Peters and back again to Smith who fires it into the corner." are examples of how ...
... register affects lexical choice
... style affect grammatical choice
... register affects both grammatical and lexical choice
... register affects grammatical choice
"I don't know about you but I suspect something is rotten in the state of Denmark." is an example of ...
... casual style
... a quotation from Shakespeare
... formal style
... frozen style in speech
The term 'register' can be used to describe levels of formality.