Language Style as Audience Design

Abstract

Language style is one of the most challenging aspects of sociolinguistic variation. The basic principle of language style is that an individual speaker does not always talk in the same way on all occasions. Style means that speakers have alternatives or choices — a ‘ that way’ which could have been chosen instead of a ‘ this way’. Speakers talk in different ways in different situations, and these different ways of speaking can carry different social meanings.

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