Week 3 stylistic variation & legal language

Question 1

What are the 3 models of stylistic variation?

Answer 1

• Attention to speech
• Accommodation model
• Audience design

Question 2

What is attention of speech

Answer 2

The more you pay attention to your speech the more formal the speech will become and vice versa. Making someone comfortable, allows the most reliable natural speech (vernacular principle).

Question 3

What is the accommodation model?

Answer 3

Converging and diverging speech due to social influence. Converging is unconscious speech change to match the environment you are in often. Slang is often picked up this way. This is often amplified through a strong desire for efficient communication.

Question 4

What is the audience design model?

Answer 4

Considers speaker, recipient and others within the environment. This model addresses stylistic change due to all audience members, even those not within the conversation.

Question 5

What are the primary and secondary roles in relation to the audience design model?

Answer 5

Primary roles are the speaker and the adresse, they are the known people approved within the conversation.

Secondary roles are third persons such as auditors (known, ratified), overhearers (known, not ratified), and eavesdroppers (unknown and unratified).

Question 6

How does an overhearer become both known and ratified within a conversation?

Answer 6

Overhearers must make themselves known within the primary conversation to be both known and ratified.

Question 7

What is register?

Answer 7

Circumstance and purpose of the communicative situation

Question 8

What are the three elements of register?

Answer 8

• Field
• Tenor
• Mode

Question 9

What is mode?

Answer 9

The medium used to communicate the language.

Question 10

What is field?

Answer 10

the social setting and purpose of the interaction which includes the subject of the language and the person publishing/saying it.

Question 11

What is tenor?

Answer 11

Relates to the participants within and related to a conversation and their purpose.

Question 12

What is register mixing?

Answer 12

Variation within one text that can indicate dual authorship, plagiarism, or imitation.

Question 13

What is text type?

Answer 13

Refers to the idea that any one individual may change their writing style 100% based of situationism.

Question 14

What are examples textual dualities not related to register causing individual variability?

Answer 14

• Cognitive conditions
• Neurological function
• Temporary inebriation
• Mental health issues

Question 15

What is a preposition?

Answer 15

Prepositions are words or short phrases that identify the spatial (in
space), directional (the direction in which something is moving), or
temporal (in time) relationship of one or more people or things to other
people or things.

Question 16

What is a nominalisation?

Answer 16

Nouns that are created from adjectives (words that describe nouns) or
verbs (action words).

Question 17

What is an independent clause?

Answer 17

A group of words containing a subject and a verb that communicates a complete thought.

Question 18

What is a dependent clause?

Answer 18

Clauses that require embedded clauses to make sense. Often indicated by marker words.

Question 19

What is a binomial?

Answer 19

Sequence of two words of the same form, often joined by simple conjunctions

Question 20

What are modals

Answer 20

Verbs that help mark the condition on an action.