English I

informal style

Équivalents français

registre familier style familier style informel

Domain / Domaine

Sociolinguistics

Sociolinguistics

style familier

Synonym(s)

casual style informal speech casual speech familiar style

Antonym(s)

formal speech careful speech formal style

Related Term(s)

colloquial speech

Sources

GUMPERZ & HYMES 1972 236-237
GUMPERZ, John J. and HYMES, Dell (eds.). (1972) Directions in Sociolinguistics: The Ethnography of Communication. New York: Holt, Reinhart & Winston.
AKMAJIAN etal. 1984 297-299
AKMAJIAN, Adrian, DEMERS, Richard A., & HARNISH, Robert M. (1984) Linguistics: An Introduction to Language and Communication, 2nd Ed. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.