Conversational style of speech

Everyone speaks the same language, but they use it in different ways. Depending on what you need to express, what is at issue, that is, depending on the purposes of communication, it changes. It turns out that each of us uses not one, but as if several different languages. The construction of our speech is conditioned by the prevailing situation of communication. There can be an infinite number of them, but they usually consider typical communication situations, which are studied by the science of speech styles - stylistics. It distinguishes five basic functional styles: colloquial, official-business, journalistic, scientific, artistic. Each of them has its own characteristic features, which are manifested in the content of statements, as well as in linguistic design.

Thus, the colloquial style of speech is used in a conversation between individual, as a rule, familiar people in a relaxed, informal atmosphere and most often in oral form. The purpose of speech is communication. Ease and vagueness are features of this style.

Language features of the colloquial style of speech :

• Casual, colloquial words: minibus (route taxi), brothers and others.
• The words are emotionally appraising: a diminutive and affectionate suffix is characteristic: rabbit, white, sweet; Or suffix of incomplete quality (-heat-, -owat-): broadish, bluish, etc.
• Verbs of a perfect kind, having a prefix for and indicating the beginning of the action (started crying instead of crying).
• Very rarely there are participles and gerunds.
• Interjections in verb form (skok, bach) are widely used.
• High variability of word order in the sentence.
• Uses the standard phrases. For example: "Hi, Well, you're a bug!"
• Proposals can be different for the purpose of the utterance: incentive and interrogative are often used.
• Characteristic use of words with different stylistic colors, which creates an ironic effect.
• Use of exclamation sentences.
• Applications are used, as well as direct speech.

Also, the colloquial style of speech is characterized by everyday, unpretentious subjects, low content of speech, use in the text is not so much of concepts as of representations. It is natural for him to use frequent pronouns, for example: "We did not want to say anything about that," "He's so sad," "Do it, do it!" In addition, "all-important" words are used, as well as words used in figurative meaning, for example: "A good thing is youth," "Take papers to court."

Conversational style of speech is also distinguished by the fact that it is based on dialogue - a chain of replicas. With direct (oral) communication, facial expressions, intonation, gestures and other additional methods of communication are of great importance . The law of economy of means of speech comes into force - hence the abundance of incomplete sentences. When using the spoken style in writing, all its features and characteristics remain.

Conversational style of speech (in the form of oral dialogical speech) is the only one among all the functional styles by which a person communicates from the very childhood that he uses, beginning with preschool age. This is the only functional style that does not need to be taught.

Examples of spoken style of speech:

- Today it's warm? - asked my mother, going to work.

- No, not really. Put on a raincoat - it looks like it will rain. Suddenly, get soaked!

- Thanks for work!

"Hello, Zheka, Igor wrote to you, you said you would send us cards, I said that you will send me the first postcard, and Sevka says that you will send him a postcard to the first, and I'll send the second one. He is the second, let him not ask, I'm waiting for an answer, your best friend, Igor. "