Style-Shifting: Audience Design (2D)

Speech Context

Setting formality 50

Addressee status 50

Social distance 50

Prestige-consciousness 60

Live Speech

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P(standard) = 50%P(vernacular) = 50%

Standard rate (last 20)

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Utterances

How it works

This is the 2D companion to the 3D style-shifting simulator, computed independently rather than a flattened render of the 3D scene. It keeps the same real audience-design logistic model — Labov's attention-to-speech and Bell's audience design — but renders the speaker–listener exchange as a top-down map you can pan and zoom, and lets you fire an utterance yourself by clicking either node.

z = k · (1.4·formality + 1.0·status + 0.7·distance)
P(standard) = 1 / (1 + e^(−z))

Setting formality — a courtroom vs. a kitchen table; the strongest driver of style in Labov's original work.
Addressee status — speaking to a boss vs. a peer; speakers accommodate upward (Bell 1984, Giles' Communication Accommodation Theory).
Social distance — a stranger vs. a close friend; more distance favours careful, standard speech. It also pushes the listener node further from the speaker on the map.
Prestige-consciousness — an individual trait; at k=0 the speaker ignores context entirely and stays at 50/50.
Drag the map to pan, scroll to zoom, or click the speaker/listener node to fire an utterance on demand.

Every ~1.1s (or on a manual click) the model draws one simulated word pair (e.g. "going to / gonna") using P(standard) as a weighted coin flip — a real Bernoulli trial, not a scripted animation — and the choice travels from speaker to listener as a coloured token along an arced path, then joins the rolling 20-utterance history strip beneath the map.

Drag to pan · scroll to zoom · click a node to speak

Standard variant Vernacular variant

Style-Shifting: Audience Design in Speech (2D)