Zusammenfassung der Ressource
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- relationship between
speaker/writer and
interlocutors/audience
- disparate power relationships
e.g teacher and student
- equal power relationship
(e.g among friends)
- physical setting (Domain),
and situational and cultural
context
- subject matter/topic/domain/field
- taboo
- mode (spoken, written or electronic)
- purpose/function of the interaction
- social attitudes and beliefs of participants
- Informal
- Functions
- Encourages intimacy, solidarity and equality
- Supporting in-group membership
- Maintaining postive face needs
- Linguistic innovation
- Non Standard english
- Colloquialsms
- Australian English
- ties into geographical variation (e.g lexical differences between NSW and VIC)
- Slang
- Individual/ Group identities
- e.g Teen Speak, ethnolects
- Written: Non-standard
orthography, adds a
conversational/casual tone,
prepositions and
determiners ellipted
- Spoken: discourse particles, pause fillers,
ellipsis, atypical phonology, contractions,
pparataxis, reduction, prosodic features (stress,
pitch, volume etc)
- (enhance, maintain, affront) positive politeness; (meet) positive face needs
- Rapport - building
- intimacy
- solidarity
- equality
- Formal
- Face needs/ politeness
- negative politeness
- emphasises social distance
- conventional politeness