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

Resource summary

	Created by Natalie Tan9642 over 8 years ago