Speech Contexts and Styles

• this refers to the environment where communication happens

  speech context
• this is the type of communication where one communicates with oneself

  intrapersonal communication
• the message of this type of communication is made up of the speaker's ideas and emotions

  intrapersonal communication
• the channel of this type of communication is the brain that processes the ideas and emotions

  intrapersonal communication
• this type of communication is when one communicates with another

  interpersonal communication
• this is the process where people exchange information, feelings, and meaning through verbal and nonverbal messages

  interpersonal communication
• this is the creating and functioning and evaluation of symbolic processes which operate within the originating or responding communicator (-- Wisemann and Barker's Self Communication Framework)

  intrapersonal communication
• this type of communication is concerned with not only what is said but also how it's said (non verbal messages)

  interpersonal communication
• this type of interpersonal communication involves 2 persons mutually sharing information, ideas, or even arguments

  dyad
• this type of interpersonal communication is small enough in size to facilitate every member's interaction and create a structure of role relationships and develop a normative pattern

  small group
• this type of interpersonal communication involves a single speaker presenting a continuous, uninterrupted, discourse of a sizable number of other persons

  public
• this type of speech style is private and requires close/deep relationships

  intimate
• this type of speech style is reserved for close, family members or intimate people

  intimate
• this type of speech style includes ordinary conversations

  casual
• this type of speech style utilizes informal language used by peers and friends

  casual
• this type of speech style includes slang, vulgarities, colloquialisms, "group language"

  casual
• this type of speech style is the thirds level of language

  consultative
• this type of speech style uses formal registers (jargon)

  consultative
• this type of speech style is considered the standard form of communication

  consultative
• this type of speech style is also known as a professional discourse (e.g. strangers meet; between superior and subordinate)

  consultative
• this type of speech style is often seen in professional contexts

  formal
• this type of speech style is a standard for work, school, and business matters

  formal
• this type of speech style uses static registers or has a fixed language

  frozen
• this type of speech style is reserved in traditions, rituals, ceremonies in which the language does not change in a number of generations

  frozen
• this type of speech style is quite literally "frozen" in time and content

  frozen