english variation in different situations

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1、EnglishVariationinDifferentSituations　　【Abstract】Animportantaspectofcommunicativecompetenceistheabilitytoadaptone’sspeechtotheimmediatesituation.Thewayamantalkstohisfamilyathomedifferentiatesfromthewayhetalkstoanunfamiliarbusinessacquaintance.Thisarticleshow

2、showspeakersvarytheirspeechtosuittheimmediatesituationandhelptocreateaparticulartypeofrelationship.　　【Keywords】situation；variation；communicativecompetence　　I.Introduction　　It’swell-knownthatwhenapersonwishestoexpressaparticularmeaning，hecanchoosefromavariety

3、ofpossiblelanguageforms.Forexample，ifhewishestosuggestthatheandthehearerhaveamealtogether，someofthemanychoicesinclude‘MayIsuggestthatwegoandeatsomething？’，‘Shallwegoandhavesomethingtoeat？’，‘Doyoufeellikecomingforsomelunch？’，or‘Comeandhaveabittoeat！’.Heselect

4、slanguagewhichissuitableforthesocialsituationandtotherelationshipbetweenhimselfandthehearer.Forexample，thefirstexpressionabovewouldbeunusualbetweentwoclosefriendsinaninformalsetting，whilethelastonewouldbeequallyunusualbetweentwostrangersinasituationrequiring

5、ahighdegreeofformality.Animportantaspectofcommunicativecompetenceistheabilitytoadaptone’sspeechtotheimmediatesituationinthisway.It’snotdifficulttoobserveinformallyhownativespeakersofEnglishvarytheirlanguagetosuitthesituationtheyarein.Thearticlewillpresentdat

6、aofthiskind.Theyenableustoseetheprocessofvariationatworkinthespeechforacompetentspeaker.　　II.Thesituationsandthedata　　Inthefirstsituation，thespeakerproducedawrittentextwithoutthepresenceofanaudience.Conventionally，thestyleofwrittenEnglishismoreformalthanthat

7、ofspeech.Inthiscasesincethetextwaswrittentobespoken，wemightexpectthisformalitytobetoneddown.Inthesecondsituation，thespeakerconveyedthesamemeaningsthroughspokenEnglishinthepresenceofanaudience.Wewouldnowexpectmoreinformalfeatures.Infact，thetwosituationsaresoc

8、loselyrelatedthatifthelinguisticchangesareconsistent，thisisaclearillustrationofhowsensitivespeechistosituation.　　Belowisarepresentativeselectionofeightofthechangeswhichoccurred，listedinrandomord