how we communicate may largely depend on the context it depends on the situation we are at and to the person whom we are talking to today we are going to talk about speech styles this definition implies that humans vary their speech styles according to the situation and the people involved in the communication process in terms of formality you may consider using formal or informal language formal language is less personal while informal language is more casual and spontaneous [Music] basically the language we use may be formal or informal different people in different situations call for different styles which resulted in martin juice a german professor in linguist further classifying the speech styles into intimate casual consultative formal and frozen [Music] for the intimate style the keyword is private there is the sense of intimacy and belongingness grammar is not that necessary personal codes may be used and certain terms of endearment are allowed such as honey faith and love [Music] slang words jargon vernacular language or the mother tongue can be used even in complete sentences are accepted in the casual style an example of this is when you hear two teenagers talking about how lift the concert they have just seen flip means raging are extremely great in your job the key word for consultative is standard which means it utilizes the mutually accepted language it is the most operational among the five styles we use it for our everyday transactions it may be considered as a semi-formal language title in formal style the language is comparatively rigid and the vocabulary is well documented it is used for professional or academic purposes it is usually one way an example of this is a guest speaker on a graduation delivering his message the frozen style is a fixed speech since it's frozen it does not change a best example of this is a priest beating the lord's prayer during the mass how he delivers or recites the prayer does not change it has always remained the same [Music] in classifying speech styles one should consider levels of formality and status depending on the degree of closeness between the sender and the receiver speech styles may move from less formal to most formal or vice versa [Music] you