SPEECH

STYLES

SPEECH STYLESare patterns of speaking characterized by distinctive pronunciation, vocabulary, intent, participants, and grammatical structures

1) INTIMATE STYLE- used between two people who have very close relationshipse.g. family, best friends, couple - have a lot of experiential knowledge in common- do not care about grammar and pronunciation

WHAT DO YOU THINK THEY ARE TELLING EACH OTHER?

ACTIVITYInstruction:1) Find a partner.2) Present a one-liner dialogue between intimately related people.

CASUAL STYLE- a conversational style used among friends- uses of trendy words and phrases , and speaks in incomplete or elided sentencese.g. “Meet at the mall?”“Bought it yesterday. Makes no difference.”- connected to social interaction as a function of communication

ACTIVITY1) Listen to the song “When You Say Nothing at All”.2) As you listen to the song, think of how friends are able to talk to each other with incomplete sentences and fragments of speech.

CONSULTATIVE STYLE- a conversational style in

which the speaker constantly observes listener’s verbal and nonverbal cues for feedback.- What the speaker will say next depends on the feedback provided by the listener.

CONSULTATIVE STYLE- used when talking to strangers

- pronounces words well, chooses words carefully, speaks in complete sentences to minimize misunderstanding- connected to information as a function of communication.

ACTIVITYIdentify the style of speech of the following lines.(intimate, casual, consultative)1) Excuse me, may I know where the registrar’s office is?2) Mom, why Dad was fired out?3) Nah, didn’t do the assignment either.4) Turn left, and enter the second door to your right.5) I need you to complete me.

FORMAL STYLE- called upon when speaking in formal settings no matter how the participants are related to each other.- Much of the language spoken in formal style depends on what the education system has taught individuals as to be used in formal settings.- requires careful attention to producing well-formed sentences and coherent, very logically- organized speech.

ACTIVITYChange the following statement in Natural English

into Formal Style (Latinism)1) Who did you get it from? 2) It’s me.3) I’m gonna fetch you at 6.4) I wanna be the one to make you happy.5) I’ve already got the envelop.

Answers:1) From whom did you get it?2) It is I.3) I am going to fetch you at 6 o’clock.4) I want to be the one to make you happy.5) I have already gotten the envelop.

FROZEN STYLE- very formal style not really intended to give a particular message but to allow a reader to find many meanings for oneself. - exists as literature for a given community

SONNET 18 – WILLIAM SHAKESPEAREShall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate:

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,And summer's lease hath all too short a date: 

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shinesAnd often is his gold complexion dimm'd; 

And every fair from fair sometime declines,By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimm'd;

But thy eternal summer shall not fadeNor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;

Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st; 

So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.