Gordon Ramsay And Nigella Lawson's Spoken Language
fAn examination of the differences in Gordon Ramsay and Nigella Lawson’s Spoken language?
Nigella Lawson and Gordon Ramsay, two very famous TV chefs, have completely different ways of presenting themselves verbally. Ramsay is well known for his fiery temper and for being extremely rude at times by using profanity. Nigella Lawson is renowned for her flirtatious manner of presenting, and is known as the “queen of food porn”; both of the transcripts I selected identify these characteristics.
Gordon Ramsay has often been criticised for his use of profanity on his TV programmes, for example Kitchen Nightmares USA, in 2010 where he was caught on camera swearing at Abby, who was the owner of a restaurant, calling her a “precious little b***h” and used f**k numerous times, he is known for his use of swear words; in a interview recently he was unaware of the extent of his swearing until he watched the episode after filming. On a recent show of Gordon’s Great British Nightmare, the guests took the total to 312 expletives, …show more content…
meaning one every 20 seconds. Nigella Lawson is known for using a different approach of presenting, she can be extremely sexual, she frequently engages in provocative behaviors like nibbling and licking when she is making meals for example in the transcript she says while cooking the devil food cake “ohh”, “mmm” and “beautiful isn’t it” when describing the “lush frosting” and the “beautiful dark cocoa”. These phrases show pleasure derived from the food but it is obvious that these sounds are similar to sounds of sexual pleasure.
The transcript also shows how Ramsay’s accent and where he is from affects the way he also speaks, in the transcript he says “’ave” and “summing” which can tell us about his socialect through the usage of these words. Gordon Ramsey is actually Scottish, but adopted a perfect Estuary accent when he moved to England, you can tell this by the way he speaks in the transcript as when he is talking he has an English accent. Whereas, Nigella Lawson has a highly polished accent, you can tell this by the way she pronounces certain words and the grammar that she uses, this is probably because her dad was a conservative MP, and she was taught in many prestigious posh schools in England, she uses Standard English a lot which makes you show that she has a high status, is wealthy or well-educated.
Gordon Ramsay’s Paralinguistic features are also very interesting as because he is known to have a fiery temper, he is permanently frowning or shouting at people and he doesn’t seem to smile a lot as when he is presenting he seems like such a angry person on his TV shows, in the transcript when he was talking about how disgusting the kitchen was “Have a look in there (3), look at the state of what they are cooking out of…” he was frowning a lot and look disgusted and confused at how the kitchen could look like such a mess.
When Abby and Ramsay started shouting at each other after she says “You’re being a f*****g c**t” his pitch and tone where increasing as he was getting more and more angry, and then he replied to her comment by calling her a “precious little b***h”, he shook his hands around a lot when he was shouting at her and kept shaking his head. Nigella Lawson’s paralinguistic features where completely different to Ramsay’s in her
transcript
In the transcript Gordon also uses filler words to show that he has paused to think but has not yet finished speaking. He used them right at the start he said “over there you’ve got a little uhhh (1) back of chicken carcases (1)” he used the word uhhh to show that he was thinking of what to say next. Further on in the paragraph he said, “I don’t know what this is (2) like a cheese of summing (1)”. Later on in the transcript he doesn’t use any more filler words as he just says what he is thinking and doesn’t stop and pause before saying something. In Nigella Lawson’s transcript, she doesn’t use any filler words at all, this is probably because she already knows what she is going to say as this is one of her recipe’s and since she is on television she would probably have a prompt, which would show her, her lines, so she wouldn’t need to use filler words as she doesn’t need to stop and think before finishing speaking.
To conclude, Nigella Lawson and Gordon Ramsay, both famous TV chefs present themselves in completely different manners, one flirtatious and the other fiery and rude.
Nigella Lawson and Gordon Ramsay, two very famous TV chefs, have completely different ways of presenting themselves verbally. Ramsay is well known for his fiery temper and for being extremely rude at times by using profanity. Nigella Lawson is renowned for her flirtatious manner of presenting, and is known as the “queen of food porn”; both of the transcripts I selected identify these characteristics.
Gordon Ramsay has often been criticised for his use of profanity on his TV programmes, for example Kitchen Nightmares USA, in 2010 where he was caught on camera swearing at Abby, who was the owner of a restaurant, calling her a “precious little b***h” and used f**k numerous times, he is known for his use of swear words; in a interview recently he was unaware of the extent of his swearing until he watched the episode after filming. On a recent show of Gordon’s Great British Nightmare, the guests took the total to 312 expletives, …show more content…
meaning one every 20 seconds. Nigella Lawson is known for using a different approach of presenting, she can be extremely sexual, she frequently engages in provocative behaviors like nibbling and licking when she is making meals for example in the transcript she says while cooking the devil food cake “ohh”, “mmm” and “beautiful isn’t it” when describing the “lush frosting” and the “beautiful dark cocoa”. These phrases show pleasure derived from the food but it is obvious that these sounds are similar to sounds of sexual pleasure.
The transcript also shows how Ramsay’s accent and where he is from affects the way he also speaks, in the transcript he says “’ave” and “summing” which can tell us about his socialect through the usage of these words. Gordon Ramsey is actually Scottish, but adopted a perfect Estuary accent when he moved to England, you can tell this by the way he speaks in the transcript as when he is talking he has an English accent. Whereas, Nigella Lawson has a highly polished accent, you can tell this by the way she pronounces certain words and the grammar that she uses, this is probably because her dad was a conservative MP, and she was taught in many prestigious posh schools in England, she uses Standard English a lot which makes you show that she has a high status, is wealthy or well-educated.
Gordon Ramsay’s Paralinguistic features are also very interesting as because he is known to have a fiery temper, he is permanently frowning or shouting at people and he doesn’t seem to smile a lot as when he is presenting he seems like such a angry person on his TV shows, in the transcript when he was talking about how disgusting the kitchen was “Have a look in there (3), look at the state of what they are cooking out of…” he was frowning a lot and look disgusted and confused at how the kitchen could look like such a mess.
When Abby and Ramsay started shouting at each other after she says “You’re being a f*****g c**t” his pitch and tone where increasing as he was getting more and more angry, and then he replied to her comment by calling her a “precious little b***h”, he shook his hands around a lot when he was shouting at her and kept shaking his head. Nigella Lawson’s paralinguistic features where completely different to Ramsay’s in her
transcript
In the transcript Gordon also uses filler words to show that he has paused to think but has not yet finished speaking. He used them right at the start he said “over there you’ve got a little uhhh (1) back of chicken carcases (1)” he used the word uhhh to show that he was thinking of what to say next. Further on in the paragraph he said, “I don’t know what this is (2) like a cheese of summing (1)”. Later on in the transcript he doesn’t use any more filler words as he just says what he is thinking and doesn’t stop and pause before saying something. In Nigella Lawson’s transcript, she doesn’t use any filler words at all, this is probably because she already knows what she is going to say as this is one of her recipe’s and since she is on television she would probably have a prompt, which would show her, her lines, so she wouldn’t need to use filler words as she doesn’t need to stop and think before finishing speaking.
To conclude, Nigella Lawson and Gordon Ramsay, both famous TV chefs present themselves in completely different manners, one flirtatious and the other fiery and rude.