Topic Six "tool" summary
In this topic we have learned that style is all around us - as long it
is to make possible other equivalent choices - and the choice is repeated,
it has the potential to form (part of) a style.
Linguistically, writers and speakers (and groups of writers or speakers)
can all have styles and texts (and groups of texts) can have styles too.
Repeated language behaviour at any linguistic level can contribute to
a style.
In addition to our dialect(s), we all use many styles (registers) of
English as we move linguistically through our day, speaking and writing.
We vary our register according to the changing situations we find ourselves
in,
according to changes in medium, tenor and domain.
Writers can signal meanings and attitudes by borrowing authorial styles
(e.g. parody) by borrowing from different registers of English (so-called
reregistration) and by switching from one style/register to another inside
particular texts (style variation).
You can find out more about these different kinds of styles, style variation
in texts, and how to analyse them by doing some of the reading.
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