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Oral Comm Week 6

The document discusses different speech styles used in oral communication. It identifies intimate, casual, consultative, formal, and frozen styles. The intimate style is used with close friends and family, while the casual style is used within subcultures and age groups using shared language. The consultative style is used with strangers or acquaintances and emphasizes professional language and feedback. The formal style conveys information without feedback. The frozen style is the most formal, using fixed traditional language in ceremonies and rituals.

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Oral Comm Week 6

The document discusses different speech styles used in oral communication. It identifies intimate, casual, consultative, formal, and frozen styles. The intimate style is used with close friends and family, while the casual style is used within subcultures and age groups using shared language. The consultative style is used with strangers or acquaintances and emphasizes professional language and feedback. The formal style conveys information without feedback. The frozen style is the most formal, using fixed traditional language in ceremonies and rituals.

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ORAL

COMMUNICATION
ORAL
COMMUNICATION

COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE
STRATEGIES

Speech Styles
Intimate
Casual
Consultative
Formal
Frozen
INTIMATE STYLE
This style is used when you are close to the person and you know them
very well because you communicate in a daily basis. Private language
may also exist due to close ties.

Family
Best and Close Friend
Loved one
ORAL COMMUNICATION
Communicative Competence Strategies
CASUAL STYLE
The receiver is usually a member of the same subculture you have, same age
bracket because of the establishment of the common way of speaking, words and
phrase, as well as non verbal communication.

ORAL COMMUNICATION
Communicative Competence Strategies
SLANG JARGONS
primarily used by younger Words or phrases that are used
people to set themselves of in a specific setting, profession
their group apart from the or trade and might not be
others, to gain popularity, or to understood by people out of
creatively communicate the setting, or of different
informally. industry.

ORAL COMMUNICATION
Communicative Competence Strategies
CASUAL STYLE
The receiver is usually a member of the same subculture you have, same age
bracket because of the establishment of the common way of speaking, words and
phrase, as well as non verbal communication.

Country Slang Urban Slang


Used by those who are in the Used by those who are in the city
rural parts of a country
Awesome sauce = awesome than
Redneck = farmers awesome
Younguns = young people Baby bump = protruding
Uppity = snobby abdominal region of a woman
Dawg = close friend

ORAL COMMUNICATION
Communicative Competence Strategies
CASUAL STYLE
The receiver is usually a member of the same subculture you have, same age
bracket because of the establishment of the common way of speaking, words and
phrase, as well as non verbal communication.

Gay Slang Common Slang


Used by members of LGBTQI Used by almost everybody
community as well as anyone
interested Kudos = respect or recognition
Blimey = exclamation of surprise
Botch = clumsy workmanship

ORAL COMMUNICATION
Communicative Competence Strategies
CONSULTATIVE STYLE
Used when we talk to strangers or when we don’t know the person
that well. The speaker uses professional or mutually accepted language
and the listener participates and gives feedback

Talking with a judge or lawyer


doctor to patient conversation

ORAL COMMUNICATION
Communicative Competence Strategies
FORMAL STYLE
It does not encourage feedback and it also doesn’t have considerable
social significance. The main function of this style is to impart
information.

Sermons by priests
President’s State of the Nation Address
Speech in conventions
ORAL COMMUNICATION
Communicative Competence Strategies
FROZEN STYLE
Most formal of all styles. Frozen style is also called fixed speech
because the language does not change in time. It is used during formal
ceremonies or traditions, delivery of prose or poetry.

Pledges
Religious services
Shakespeare’s plays
ORAL COMMUNICATION
Communicative Competence Strategies

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