COMMUNICATIVE

STYLES

COMMUNICATIVE STYLES

The way you communicate has a big

impact on how you get on with people

and get the things you want. Good

communication skills can help you

avoid conflict and solve problems –

they’re also important for making

friends and having healthy

relationships.

TYPES OF COMMUNICATIVE

STYLES

Formal

Casual

Consultative

Aggressive

Passive

Frozen

Intimate

Informal or Casual

A casual form of information sharing

typically used in personal

conversations with friends

or family members.

Phone Texts, Conversation with friends

or family members, etc.

Formal

A type of

verbal presentation or document intend

ed to share information and which

conforms

to established professional rules,

standards and processes and

avoids using slang terminology.

Frozen

It is the most formal communicative

style that is usually used in respectful

situation or formal ceremony.

Consultative

It is used in some group discussion, regular

conversation at school, companies, trade,

speech conversation, etc. it was the most

operational among the other styles. One of

the characteristics of consultative language

is its tendency of average speed, which is

higher than formal style. The sentence tend

to be shorter (resemble or indeed, phrase)

and less well planned (tend to spontaneous).

Since it is spontaneous, people tend to

repeat some unnecessary words, choose the

wrong word choice or use many slang or

jargon

Intimate

It is a style among intimate members of

a family or friends that do not need a

complete language with clear

articulation. It is enough to use short

utterances. Another characteristic of

this style is grammar unnecessarily

used here, because it can bring

disorder to this intimate style.

Aggressive

Aggressive communication is

expressed in a forceful and hostile

manner, and usually involves alienating

messages such as ‘you-statements’

(blaming the other person and

accusing them of being wrong or at

fault) and labelling. In addition, the

person’s tone of voice and facial

expressions are unfriendly.

Passive

Passive communication involves

putting your needs last. You don’t

express your thoughts or feelings, or

ask for what you want. Passive

communication involves putting your

needs last. You don’t express your

thoughts or feelings, or ask for what

you want.