LING 2P72 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Creole Language, Legal English, Tag Question
15 Jan 2016
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Function: situation or occupation of speaker affects the choices made. Addressee: creating or acknowledging social distance of solidarity. Language features: phonological, grammatical, and vocab features can. Style: choice of language within a dialect, based on context, not group identity. Choice is based on: indicate social status of. Register: choice of language related to group membership or occupation. Lawyer talk, teacher talk, sports commentators, sport dressing room talk (swearing) Speech accommodation: changing ones speech in reaction to addressee. We shift our style to accommodate to our audience. We can converge (sound more like interlocutors/people we"re talking to) or diverge (sound less like them) Politeness and requests: more formal situations call for more indirect requests. Politeness and terms of address: terms of address indicate relative status of speakers. Addressee as an influence on style: the better you know someone, the more casual and relaxed the speech style you use; generalization holds across difference languages.
