Tyler and Tommy Alliterate their Names and talk Arsenal
The next step in the Spoken Language Study is to transcribe this conversation – after which the boys will analyse the text for the unique features of spoken language present. The video provides good evidence of the importance of prosody and paralinguistic features in creating meaning when speaking.
Kamrul, Alex and Mark Have One Very Post-Modern Conversation
From this conversation, these boys will be exploring the unique distinguishing features of spoken language. The first step: transcribe it! Download (PDF,...
Spoken Language Study: Analyse the Transcript
After viewing the excerpt and carefully transcribing the conversation from within, today we began the process of identifying the all the features that deviate from “Standard English”. Here is the result – next we’ll be delving deeper into the linguistic and paralinguistic features of this spoken text and having our second attempt at writing up our conclusions in long form. LINKS: Original excerpt and transcript...
Homework: Mobility of Paralinguistic Features
In class today, everyone made a start on answering the following question. The homework is to complete this, on your personal blog, as a test of the swiftness of the response you will get from me to any work you do there. QUESTION: How do spoken language and text language influence each other? Make a statement Give examples Explain how your examples support your statement NAME the language features you’re using as...
Discriminating Between Spoken and Text Language
Today we explored a wide range of language features that are typical of spoken and multi-modal language and classified them in three categories: (The boys were asked to share with each other the devices or features that they were the most interested in or uncertain of, rather than the ones they were the most sure were correct. We didn’t want the safe answers) Spoken-Only These features of language are only present in spoken...
