Spoken Language Assignment
‘Text has added to language use’
Explore a range of texts to investigate to what extent is it true, referring to public attitude and describing how you and others adapt to spoken language for specific purposes speaker one when speaking to speaker two starts with only phonetic representation with the word you (‘u’) but as he sinks into the conversation he then goes on to use carious language devices like omission when he says ‘gdgd’ instead of good good, he also uses initials when saying ‘OMG’ and ‘LMAO’. This would suggest the two are new friends and person one use little text language at first to see how speaker two will react and how he uses text devices. As we can see speaker to replies with the use of shared lexis and initials. This seems to open the conversation for person one as we see how familiar he actually is with text language. We could work out from this that person to has a lack of interest; he says that he is on ‘fb’ which is initials meaning Facebook. This could show the …show more content…
Shared lexis might also show that there is a bit of informality between the two and that not every word he speaks to her is precise and accurate. This would also suggest that they speak in the same accent and use the same words as each other so he was typing like that to try and speak like they would normally do when they face to face conversation. This could be down to the fact that this person knows only the simplest text language and in order for her to understand and him have the ability to write in a language he feels comfortable with he has to use basic text languages. This could be the use of convergence because he uses the simplest of text language that can be easily understood by his mother but also allowing him to be able to use text
Explore a range of texts to investigate to what extent is it true, referring to public attitude and describing how you and others adapt to spoken language for specific purposes speaker one when speaking to speaker two starts with only phonetic representation with the word you (‘u’) but as he sinks into the conversation he then goes on to use carious language devices like omission when he says ‘gdgd’ instead of good good, he also uses initials when saying ‘OMG’ and ‘LMAO’. This would suggest the two are new friends and person one use little text language at first to see how speaker two will react and how he uses text devices. As we can see speaker to replies with the use of shared lexis and initials. This seems to open the conversation for person one as we see how familiar he actually is with text language. We could work out from this that person to has a lack of interest; he says that he is on ‘fb’ which is initials meaning Facebook. This could show the …show more content…
Shared lexis might also show that there is a bit of informality between the two and that not every word he speaks to her is precise and accurate. This would also suggest that they speak in the same accent and use the same words as each other so he was typing like that to try and speak like they would normally do when they face to face conversation. This could be down to the fact that this person knows only the simplest text language and in order for her to understand and him have the ability to write in a language he feels comfortable with he has to use basic text languages. This could be the use of convergence because he uses the simplest of text language that can be easily understood by his mother but also allowing him to be able to use text