[SOCIOLING] Lesson 10 - Style, Context and Register

People tend to use more _____ to those they don't know well

• standard forms
• vernacular forms

People tend to use more _____ to their friends

• standard forms
• vernacular forms

Which utterance is from a kid to an adult?

• Excuse me. Could I have a look at your photos too, Mrs. Hall?
• C'mon Tony, gizzalook, gizzalook.

Which utterance is from a kid to a kid?

• Excuse me. Could I have a look at your photos too, Mrs. Hall?
• C'mon Tony, gizzalook, gizzalook.

Which factors are relevant to both the degree of social distance/solidarity and social status?

• Age, gender, social roles, whether people work together, or are part of the same family, and so on.
• Age, gender, social roles, whether people work, or are part of the same family, and so on.
• Age, gender, social status, whether people work together, or are part of the same family, and so on.
• Age, gender, social roles, whether people work together, or are part of different families, and so on.

When talking to children, people usually use

• sing-song intonation
• baby-talk
• simpler vocabulary and grammar
• adult-talk

Many speakers use features similar to speech to children when talking to:

• Adult
• Teenager
• Middle-aged
• Elderly

"Use of we rather than you" is the feature of speech to whom?

• Children
• Adult
• Teenager
• Elderly

What is audience design?

• When people talk to each other their speech often becomes more similar
• The influence of the addressee or audience on a speaker’s style
• When someone goes beyond their usual or normal ways of speaking and behaving and engages in a ‘high’ or ‘strong’ performance of some sort
• The choice of appropriate form is influenced by the formality of the context and their relative roles and statuses within that setting.

What is an evidence of audience design?

• Newreaders produce consitently different syles for each audience
• Women use less imperatives than men