• Osama Mahmoud Abu Baha

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People always position themselves in relation to others by the way they talk in different kinds of interaction. A person doesn’t always talk exactly the same way all the time. For example, he/she alters his/her pitch, tone, intonation and stress accordingly. A football commentator uses different styles if he/she is commenting on a local, unimportant game or, say, the final game of the world cup. He/ she might use
different functional and grammatical forms. Therefore, speakers take into their consideration who their addressees are, and therefore use the appropriate changeable speech style. Different definitions of style will be discussed and more elaborations about style within the sociolinguistics field will be highlighted. Then, style shifting and
its effectiveness will be elaborated. In brief, we will thrash out the audience design and how it affects speech style. This review will focus on different topics and style atonement such as salience, emotionality, technicality, narration, abstraction and humorousness. These topics will be supported by simple dialogue experiments and field observations. Topics from the other Languages in relation to style and variation will be entertained. Finally, we will answer the question why styles of speech are attuned to other people commenting on the purposes of style shifting. 

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