Communicative

Styles
For Various Situations
Communicative Styles
• Casual/ Conversational Style
• Consultative Style
• Formal Style
• Intimate Style
• Frozen Style
Casual / Convesational Style
• an informal communication
• used in conversation between friends and insiders who
have something to share and have shared background
information but don’t have close relations.

phone calls, everyday

conversation with friends,
chats, etc.
Consultative Style
• used in semi-formal communication
• sentences end to be shorter and spontaneous
• the speaker does not usually plan what he/she wants to say, most
operational among others.

regular classroom discussions,

doctor-patient, etc.
Formal Style
• straightforward speeches
• the speaker avoids using slang terminologies
• what the speaker says is something that has been prepared
beforehand
• logically sequenced and strongly coherent

Announcements, SONA,
welcome addresses, 
Intimate Style
• For very close relationships like couples, family, and best friends. 
• used for self-addressed questions or self-talk, etc.
• used in conversation between people who are very close and know
each other quite well because they have the maximum of shared
background information.

Couple talking about their future

plans, family sharing ideas, very
close friends sharing secrets, etc
Frozen Style
• most formal communicative style
• used during respectful events and ceremonies
• used generally in a very formal setting, does not require any
feedback from the audience, most formal communicative style
for respectful situations.

Pledges, anthems, marriage

ceremonies, laws, etc.