Topic 2

• Communication entails a delicate balancing in order to sustain connection and transact successfully.
• Each speech style - intimate, frozen, consultative, casual or formal - or the way language is used, will greatly depend on the speakers’ relationship, purpose of the conversation and the speech context - dyad, small group, public, and mass communication.
• Communicative strategies such as repair, topic shifting, restriction, topic control, turn-taking, nomination and termination, will be used to maintain the connection in order to successfully impart the message and achieve the purpose of communication.
• Language Form refers to the formality or informality of the language used and it involves the choice of words and how sentences or utterances are structured.
• Formal language is used when talking with professionals or persons in authority in a formal, official or ceremonial occasion, situation, gathering or event.
• Informal language, on the other hand, is used without much consideration to rules of convention or etiquette.