There was also some improvement in the formality of learners' language, but there was no evidence of improvement in linguistic accuracy or complexity.
But most of the time it was a case of finding an elegant yet slightly stilted register that would suggest the rhythms and stylised formality of the Japanese language running all the time behind the English.
Occasionally, there's a bit of dissonance in "We Tiresias" between the play's casual setting and the formality of the playwright's language, especially in some intrusive moments of direct address to the audience.
In comparing the spoof articles to legitimate news, Dearden and Baron paid special attention to the amount of detail used, the vagueness of the language, the formality of the author's writing style, and the complexity of their language.
The dialogue, meanwhile, has the stilted formality of people speaking an unfamiliar language – the inevitable upshot, perhaps, of a German directing a cast of Americans, Canadians, Swedes, Brits and Belgians, using a script which, according to the end credits, was translated from Norwegian to English.
With regard to formality, Stone similarly employs Joos' (1961) five styles in an experiment, asking two BSL users to identify the level of formality of two instances of discourse, based upon language content and production.
The formality of the company is also reflected in language.
Although studies that focus specifically on the nature of formality are not as extensive, it is generally agreed that the formality of a situation will have some effect on the language used.
A formality of diction is intermingled with contemporary vernacular phrasing, a purposeful anachronism that is mirrored in the body language of the actors.
