Spoken Language

Spoken language is the study of understanding how we speak and how we change the way we speak depending on who we’re talking to – adults, people our own age etc. Language is developed through our culture, identity or even the environment we are adapted to. Spoken language is used as communicating different emotions to one another whether its’; love, hatred or annoyance. One of the many aspects used in my household is use of questions. Myself my mother and sister tend to ask more open ended questions and rhetorical questions rather than genuine questions whereas my dad likes to get straight to the point and avoids using fillers such as ‘urmm’ or ‘yeah’.
I know this because on my transcript it quotes ‘me- Why that late? (.3) Dad- Because, that’s