THE INFLUENCE OF MODE, SUB-MODE, AND SPEAKER PREDILECTION ON STYLE.

This article focuses on the variable features of any language habitually chosen by an encoder, which may be termed as the style of the individual. Although reflecting a variety of influences, the orientation is mainly linguistic and descriptive rather than perspective or evaluative and is concerned with both phenomenological and behavioral aspects of style. It includes materials drawn from empirical observation some of which has been quantified and some of which has not been and may not be quantifiable. Basically this paper presents a stylistic profile of six subjects derived from both objective measures and subjective impressions of the lexical and syntactical choices they make.