Mark: hay awww (dialect) Alex you know how awkward it is talking to a camera
Kamrul: Yeah (affirmative) because they don’t talk back do they! (Rhetorical)
Alex: Its bare (dialect) rude innit ( dialect and abbreviation )
Mark: Yeah because it seems soo (exageration) forced, cause (dialect) you don’t get anything out of-it (abbreviation). It seems so pointless.
Alexander: I find its so funny I can’t stop laughing (laugh) (Paralinguistic feature)
Mark: Yeah in-nit (abbreviation) it’s really, like (filler) annoyin (dialect and abbreivation) you can’t stop laughing.
Alex: MAAAAAAHHHHHH! (Filler)
Mark: Yeah Kamrul how-bout (dialect) you, what do you think about it? Kamrul: I don’t like talking to cameras.
Mark: Why not? (Raises voice)
Alex: (Interrupts) What do you think we should talk about to this camera? Mark: (Confused) What camera?
Kamrul: It looks dodgy(no one listens), it looks dodgy. Alex: There! (Points) What should we talk to it about?
Mark: Life? Alex: LIIFFEEEEEE!
Mark: 42, That’s pretty much it.
Alex: (Mumbles) 42
Kamrul:Yeah 42
Mark: You can end it there
Soren : But why?
Firstly spoken is much more obedient to standard English than my instant messaging conversations over facebook. This is because it is spoken, when people speak it requires little effort to pass information, this is because when you speak, it is easy to pronounce and there is flow to what you say. However in text, standard English does not apply and are more of a set of guide lines, due to the fact of people wanting to pass information as quickly as possible, with ease and not having to type long paragraphs and spending long periods of time doing so.
For example, “Yh hwru?” This is from my text conversation in my book. This phrase means, yeah how are you? This has been changed for brevity, and for the easy pass of information, however as I have said already, there is no need to shorten words into initialism in spoken language because language when spoken has a type of flow, you do not need to shorten words into letters because when people speak.
Another analytical point from the transcript is the dominant agenda which for the transcripts case is Mark because he is setting the subject to talk about, he is also in control of the conversation because he is demanding other people to speak. However he is being interrupted by Alex. This shows that Alex is struggling to get dominance that is the reason why he interrupts and why he says ” MAAAAAAHHHHHH!”. This analytical point reasons more with psychology than English however the point is relevant because, conversation is all about how your mind works because your mind is the root of speech.
This point is the total opposite of Facebook chat or instant messaging. Everything in instant messaging is rather mediated because of the lack of tone and everything that you type is clear so you can always be heard, this means there is also no confusion or mumbling because everything written on Facebook is seen and acknowledged.
You can still have a dominant agenda however you don’t particularly need to follow it,If you want to steal a topic you just simply change the agenda, instant messaging is all about asking questions. A metaphor to compare Facebook chat would mostly be a table tennis game, you just return questions and answers back and forth. For example my written transcript for instant messaging has this feature;
“Me: My bro is gona come to my schl nxt yr
Friend: Oh yh bros are in the same yr 🙂
Me: Your bro stil into pwer rngers?
Friend: No hes more pro evolution soccer or whtever that is, IDK the point of those games, do u?
Me: No LOL 😀 wait, you still take dance classes?”
As I have said this shows the question and answer situation of nicely and also shows more initialism “IDK” and the use of brevity for words, like missing out vowels so that they are quicker to type and very recognisable, the use of emoticons which are substitutes for paralinguistic features; that are expressed via the use of picture, theses are very useful and can express various terms as sarcasm and the indication of say an insult towards someone or a compliment.
Spoken language is in a way better than written text because there is a whole atmosphere towards the conversation, you can read different para linguistic features that show your interest towards a certain topic or show either affirmatives or just different signs like body language. For example smiling after someone has said something indicates that the comment that they made was amusing. There are substitutes or these like emoticons (as referenced in previous paragraph) but these don’t have the usually have the same conversation changing effect as body language.
In conclusion both transcripts have lots of differences however they share similarities; to note that they are both social conversations that you would have usually and are in a way quite common. The main reasons why we communicate so differently to spoken and written texts are
Paralinguistic features, as body language.
Atmosphere, if there is tension or if it is quiet.
Pass of information the information that is said, social or serious.
Emotion, how you feel while writing.
Flow, Spoken language compared to text would have to be music.
There are many more but I reside theses as the most important, also I have to say that when you are talking to someone over text then you are not really using any senses, such as sight or hearing or even touch you are just passing information.
React!