Everyday spoken language
Verbatim account.
Types of talk in life: - Spontaneous conversation = Talking to friends/strangers - Prepared speech= Assembly - Partly prepared & partly spontaneous speech= Teaching/Job interview - Face to face= Interview - Non-face to face= Telephone Contexts of talk in life: Each will effect the other - Type of topic and purpose of talk= Difference - Identity of speaker= Who is speaking? - Audience addressed= Who are they? - Setting= Where is it taking place, Classroom/Head of years office *Status of speaker made clear by address terms Main Features of talk in life: - Main function is social interaction= Party - Spontaneous, unplanned and less structured - Likely to be accompanied by gestures and body language - Likely to be less formal in terms of lexis = Colloquial - Grammar= Utterances rather than speaking in full sentences, disjointed conjunctions and allusions - Likely to contain more phalatic language = Small talk - More digression and interruptions - Non-fluency features= Fillers, pauses, hesitations, repetition, false starts and ellipsis Prosodic features: writers convey these in some ways to make it clear - Intonation: way you speak= Tone - Word stress= Text messages - Accent - Pace - Volume - Overlapping speech - several speakers talking at once. * Numerical Language: Count how many times they are used. |
Main features of talk in literature: - Main function is social interaction= Create characters convey a message - Spontaneous, unplanned and less structured= Planned - Likely to be accompanied by gestures and body language - Prosodic features= Less of these - Formal terms of lexis= More - Grammar utterances= More grammar used, looked ugly on the page?... - Phatic Language= Not as much, but still apparent - Digression and interruption= False starts, not as many - Non-fluency features= Not used as much but still used - Fillers, pauses and hesitation= When she finally spoke she felt hesitant... |