How Audience affects Communication

How Audience affects Communication
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How Audience affects Communication
The level of formality or informality one uses in writing or speaking is hugely determined by one's purpose as well as their audience's expectations. As such, different levels of diction that exist are both appropriate and inappropriate for different situations. This implies that language that would be acceptable in one setting can be improper in another. For instance, Bruni uses formal diction in his article 'The Real Campus Scourge' while Emery Bergmann adopts a humorous approach in her "My College Transition" video to depict distinct purposes and audience.
Emery uses informal language to express her personal experience in her first months in college. She approaches the whole experience with a lot of humor because her intended audience is first-year students who are probably grappling with loneliness in college, just like herself. Unlike Bruni, whose audience involves teachers and parents, and thus ...