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"Style" is nearly synonymous with "register".

The term "register" comes from sociolinguistics; it includes primarily

lexicon and syntax, and it is associated primarily with ordinary language use,

especially spoken language.

The term "style" comes from literary theory, and thus (in addition to

register features) it includes a number of "aesthetic" features such as sound and

spelling; it's associated primarily with "artistic" (self-conscious, edited) uses of

language, especially written language.

Just as the language itself can be broken down into elements that

combine in various ways, so can style. Here there are three differences. The first,

language proper can be combined and recombined into an infinite number of

sentences. The second, language can be used to say anything style is confines to

message about social status, moods, and desire degree of intimacy between

speaker. The last, language must be broke down into elements if it is to be

understood, style is virtually isomorphic with the message.

Any word or sound in the linguistic system proper can be used to mean

many, many different things, and their meaning can change in new situation.

Since style is processed separately from the meaning of words and grammar, it is

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not surprising that its messages are unambiguous. Style is often used to tell

hearers how to take the message given by words, seriously, as sarcasm, as

something the speaker is happy or sad about, or in some other way. Style is an

instruction to hearers superimposed upon the content of the communication. The

less ambiguous the instruction the more likely it will be understood.

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The messages given by style depend heavily on features like tempo, pith,

loudness, intonation, and timbre. The voice that we use is not entirely the one we

are born with. To be more accurate, each person is born with a possible range of

voices, one of which we adopt as the base or normal voice. Most of us could talk

either on a lower or higher pitch than we do, and we can vary out timbre.

Sometimes we do change our voice, making them sexier, kinder or sweeter. In

other hand, £
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removing the need to use buttons, dials and switches, consumers can easily

operate appliances with their hands full or while doing other tasks. The first

examples in home appliances are washing machines [1] that allows consumers to

operate washing controls through vocal commands, and mobile phones with

voice-activated dialing.

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Style is relatively minor variation in usage. Dialect indicates rather more

difference, and language the most, it is virtually impossible to pinpoint exactly

when a style switch graduates into a dialect change. Also, a style maybe

associated with a particular social occasion. Then it is called register or

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functional variety of speech. We cannot make neat categories for style, dialect,

and language. There is a continuum from style to register to dialect to language.

The thing to remember is that the elements of speech that get varied are the same

in style, dialect, and language. Styles differ from one another just as dialects and

languages do. Since dialect and language differences will occupy the rest of this

book, here only style will be discussed.

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