How would you describe the following in terms of style and register? "Please go and muck out the bay's stable."
Informal style: Stable register
Consultative style: Stable register
Frozen style: Agricultural register
Casual style: Stable register
How would you describe the following in terms of style and register? No Trolleys Beyond This Point
Formal style: Shopping register
Consultative style: Transport register
Frozen style: Transport 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."
Intimate style
Casual style
Consultative 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"
Formal style
Casual style
Consultative style
Frozen style
Style affects pronunciation because ...
Less formal styles require less care in pronunciation
Less formal settings more readily allow the use of regional and class accents
In formal settings we choose our words carefully
In consultative style we avoid the use of weak forms
Academic register uses modality differently from football register by ...
... using more hedging such as "It is arguable that ..."
... using 'might have' rather than 'could have'
... avoiding the use of 'can' to mean permission
... avoiding modal verbs altogether
"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 grammatical choice
... register affects lexical choice
... register affects both grammatical and lexical choice
"I don't know about you but I suspect something is rotten in the state of Denmark." is an example of ...
... frozen style in speech
... a quotation from Shakespeare
... formal style
... casual style
The term 'register' can be used to describe levels of formality.