How would you describe the following in terms of style and register? "Please go and muck out the bay's stable."
Consultative style: Stable register
Casual style: Stable register
Informal style: Stable register
Frozen style: Agricultural register
How would you describe the following in terms of style and register? No Trolleys Beyond This Point
Formal style: Shopping register
Frozen style: Transport register
Casual style: Transport register
Consultative style: Transport register
How would you describe the following in terms of style? "I'll cook the usual Friday dinner, if you like, love."
Formal style
Intimate style
Casual style
Consultative 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"
Frozen style
Casual style
Consultative style
Formal style
Style affects pronunciation because ...
In formal settings we choose our words carefully
Less formal styles require less care in pronunciation
Less formal settings more readily allow the use of regional and class accents
In consultative style we avoid the use of weak forms
Academic register uses modality differently from football register by ...
... avoiding the use of 'can' to mean permission
... avoiding modal verbs altogether
... using 'might have' rather than 'could have'
... 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 ...
... style affect grammatical choice
... register affects lexical 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 ...
... a quotation from Shakespeare
... casual style
... formal style
... frozen style in speech
The term 'register' can be used to describe levels of formality.