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“Influences of Spoken Language and Text” H/W

Spoken Language influences the text in many ways also “vice versa” they both play their own parts of the development of modern day language. The fascinating things are the ways those language, phrases and words are developed and how that impacts daily life. 

For example Emoticons :D, :/, 🙂 all these are used in text because there is simply no use for them outside of the page because what they are, are imitations of what the author is feeling when he or she is typing a because the receiver can not see the face or body language of whom they are talking to. Putting this in to context the receiver can get mixed messages when the author types this

I’ve got school tomorrow.

But when adjusted with an emoticon;

I’ve got school tomorrow  😀

This implies that he is happy about going to school however that isn’t usually the case;

I’ve got school tomorrow 🙁

This is a more realistic version and implies that the he is sad about going to school so the comparison of the two phrases shows that just by adding an emoticon, emoticons can change the whole mood of a sentence so therefore this is a paralinguistic feature that imitates peoples facial expression so that it can be understood and transferred into written text to help context and emotion hence “Emoticons”. That justifies how spoken language or “Body language” can influence our written text.

Another piece of evidence would be abbreviation or initialisms  such as lol, brb, idk and  so on. These abbreviations are used frequently within instant  messaging because they prove incredibly useful to indicate common things that people say all the time. Some can only be said in text while others have wriggled their way into some peoples spoken language for instance lol. This is spoken by the youth because of instant messaging and its hold on the young generation; lol has many different meanings if put into the right context however theses are irrelevant. Initialisms are also used because of certain social groups that use them you can already predict the age of  someone that for instance long paragraphs on Facebook or he/she writes be right back because they are unfamiliar with the abbreviations so to go into depth you can tell loads from text and the way people write because even if writing does not have speech and lots of other fluctuations of voice patters (questions) language has adapted its way into telling us the characteristics of the author in social writing. 

To stop straying off topic abbreviations are used for brevity,tonal and characteristics of the author so therefore they have influenced spoken language because of the youth speaking the initilisms and spoken language like go to go being transformed for brevity and usage to turn into gtg for “standard or common” purpose.

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  1. Christopher Waugh Avatar
    Christopher Waugh

    Soren,

    I’m really impressed to see how much thinking is going into your analysis of the difference between spoken and text language.

    One of the strengths of the writing is that it has a very appropriate conversational tone for this type of discourse. It enhances your work when you write things like “the fascinating things” or “this is a more realistic version”. This is because it engages the reader in the discussion about your ideas, and it also suggests that you have an interest yourself in what you’re talking about.

    However, I would like you to look carefully at how your express these ideas, because a some of the writing is more complex than it needs to be for the points that you’re trying to make.

    Here are some suggestions that might help you to improve the clarity and precision of your writing:

    • Keep your sentences short and purposeful. (Consider this “For example Emoticons :D, :/, 🙂 all these are used in text because there is simply no use for them outside of the page because what they are, are imitations of what the author is feeling when he or she is typing a because the receiver can not see the face or body language of whom they are talking to.” – could it be simplified to clarify the point?)
    • Another area for development is where you are currently using quotation marks marks for emphasis. Ideally you should reserve quotation marks only for when you are actually quoting text. If you want to create emphasis I suggest that you underline or make your words bold.
    • The quality of your thinking was not supported by examples that were as sophisticated. If you’re discussing the subtle influences of speaking on text messaging, then I encourage you to explore less simplistic examples. A rich area for investigation here is sarcasm and irony – how is that denoted in speech and in text?
    • lastly, in terms of the content, the question asked about how spoken language and text language influence each other. You answered this well however a lot of other points were made which were probably a distraction from that question.

    Overall, the strengths of your work lie in the ideas that you’re presenting. Areas that need to be improved are to do with your writing style – especially in terms of the clarity of how you’re stressing your analysis.

    Righto!

    Mr Waugh

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