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