Communicative Styles

By Teacher Aira

COMMUNICATIVE STYLE

Communication

• Sharing or exchanging information or news.

• It means sending or receiving messages using things like phones, computers, or even face-to-face conversations.

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Speech style 

• refers to how formal or casual the way you speak or write is. It shows the tone and level of politeness in your language, which can change depending on who you're talking to or the situation.

​Intimate

• This type of communicative style applies to conversational experiences between and/or among people who share intimate relationships.

• Usually done in private, this also shows no social boundaries among the speakers considering their intimacy.

• This also employs Informal and Intimate language.

  a. Sharing of secrets between friends

  b. Parents talking about their family goals

​Consultative

• This is used in semi-formal communication, where sentences tend to be shorter and spontaneous.

• It happens in two-way participation. 

• It uses unplanned speech. This is the normal style for speaking to strangers or persons who are neither  acquaintances nor friends nor relatives.

  a. Regular classroom discussion

  b. Doctor-Patient

  c. Lawyer-client

​ Casual 

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  • This is an informal language used by friends and peers.

  • Slang, vulgarities and colloquialism, informal contractions are normal in this type of speech style.

    For example: This uses “group language” so only members of the group can understand it. 

    a. Everyday conversation with friend

    b. A personal message or personal emails.

​Formal

• It is straightforward speeches

• It is used in speaking to large groups and is impersonal in nature.

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

• It avoids using slang terminologies and uses formal English.

• Language is comparatively rigid and has a set, agreed-upon vocabulary structured complex sentences and noun phrases.

  a. Meetings

  b. SONA (State of the Nation Address) 

​. Frozen

• This type of communicative style rarely or never changes. 

• It is “frozen” in time and content.

• It is generally used in a very formal setting.

• This is the most formal communicative style for a respectful situation.

• It has a fixed and static language and uses long sentences with a good command of grammar. 

  a. National Anthem

  b. Holy Mass