Spoken Language and Text
Explore the view that speaking, texting and/or web-based interactions can be very creative forms of language use.
“English is a rich and fruitful language”, this high concept quote is something that I have heard over and over again throughout my life in education. However to answer this question this quote has to become adjusted towards the question that needs to be answered. An adjustment to this statement would be “speaking and texting are rich and fruitful creative forms of language use”; therefore changing and manipulating the 136 characters of SMS language and spoken language creating new aspects and concepts.
Spoken language has developed throughout millennia and has changed in so many ways, even though English may not have been the language that has been developing, paralinguistic features such as body language and facial expressions have been developed, therefore these are creative adjustments that change the outcome of a spoken sentence. For example Spoken language has become so powerful that a spoken statement could mean something totally than what was linguistically said. This would be sarcasm and sarcasm is an aspect of language that has many variables, these could be facial expressions, tones of voice or body language. Sarcasm doesn’t have a set of guide lines because it is a very informal way of passing information. This is because of the misinterpretations that people can get in different situations.
To elaborate on sarcasm, sarcasm as referenced before usually influences spoken language using paralinguistic features such as facial expressions and tones of voice. For example, “Nah you don’t say” this common expression would be said using a lower tone but usually quite loud, these aspects change the complete outcome of this expression therefore making the sentence mean the total opposite from its written version. The written comparison would be nah you don’t say that because… but the informal language has just been generally recognised as
“English is a rich and fruitful language”, this high concept quote is something that I have heard over and over again throughout my life in education. However to answer this question this quote has to become adjusted towards the question that needs to be answered. An adjustment to this statement would be “speaking and texting are rich and fruitful creative forms of language use”; therefore changing and manipulating the 136 characters of SMS language and spoken language creating new aspects and concepts.
Spoken language has developed throughout millennia and has changed in so many ways, even though English may not have been the language that has been developing, paralinguistic features such as body language and facial expressions have been developed, therefore these are creative adjustments that change the outcome of a spoken sentence. For example Spoken language has become so powerful that a spoken statement could mean something totally than what was linguistically said. This would be sarcasm and sarcasm is an aspect of language that has many variables, these could be facial expressions, tones of voice or body language. Sarcasm doesn’t have a set of guide lines because it is a very informal way of passing information. This is because of the misinterpretations that people can get in different situations.
To elaborate on sarcasm, sarcasm as referenced before usually influences spoken language using paralinguistic features such as facial expressions and tones of voice. For example, “Nah you don’t say” this common expression would be said using a lower tone but usually quite loud, these aspects change the complete outcome of this expression therefore making the sentence mean the total opposite from its written version. The written comparison would be nah you don’t say that because… but the informal language has just been generally recognised as