This chapter focuses on two broad phases of style research outside of the variationist perspective. It focuses mainly on the contemporary scene of style research, taking in the various perspectives that have moved on and away from Labov's approach. Michael Halliday developed the idea of context of situation, which J. R. Firth and Bronislaw Malinowski had established as a key theoretical concept in linguistic anthropology. Halliday used the term "register" to refer the interconnectedness of situational and linguistic meanings, and emphasized that register is an inescapable organizing principle of every act of speaking. Register could be analyzed in three dimensions: field, mode, and tenor. Allan Bell's audience design framework substantially realigned the sociolinguistics of style. Contemporary approaches to sociolinguistic style tend to foreground the cluster of perspectives: multiple voicing, fluidity of social identification, social constructionist interpretation, an interactional perspective on indexical meaning, and ethnographic analysis.