Sentence examples for formality of the situation from inspiring English sources
Are you?" I wanted to break down the formality of the situation, and suddenly he started speaking perfect English.
Which ones a speaker uses depends on the relative status of the two speakers to each other, as well as the formality of the situation and what they're talking about.
Working as a correspondent in Germany, where they still persist with two ways of saying "you" depending on the formality of the situation, I despaired at the widespread determination to refer to me as "Frau Pidd".
This study demonstrates that traditional variationist conceptualizations of style shifting as a primarily responsive phenomenon, conditioned by matters external to the speaker such as audience and formality of the situation, are inadequate to account for all stylistic choices.
This follows the theory of expectancy in formality, proposed by Arndt and Janney (1987), who state that stable communication occurs when there is a match between the expected formality level of the situation and that chosen by the communicators.
Among those that have been discussed in relation to various languages are: the formality or informality of the situation; power and solidarity relationships between the participants; differences of sex, age, occupation, socioeconomic class, and educational background; and personal or transactional situations.
We all — men and women — know the legal formalities of this situation.
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.
Intriguingly, Halliday and Matthiessen class valuation as a feature of tenor rather than one of field, and although this study did not look into this feature, this categorisation seems to reinforce the idea that the tenor of the situation has the strongest influence on perceived contextual formality and employed linguistic formality.
The wedding party attire can be formal or informal, depending on the formality of the event.
