Prosodic Features - Pitch - Tempo - Volume Non-Verbal Features - Gestures - Body language Accommodation Theory - Adapting your language to emphasise the difference between you and the person - Adopting their language features if you feel comfortable At the start Hardy is very relaxed and casual‚ he is sat comfortably in the chair when Jonathon asks him the question about his film. He is speaking slowly and answering the question confidently. Jonathon starts to ask him liking violence
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Writing plays an important role particularly in modern society. Spoken language very dominant followed by the spoken language. When talking about Language‚ writing is a part of four skills‚ apart from listening‚ speaking‚ and reading‚ which language student should be mastered. Especially for the students‚ writing is a skill in which is they should be mastered since elementary school. Unfortunately‚ writing might be the most difficult skill to be mastered which contains numerous problems. Grammatical
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Storm in the Black forest is written by D.H Lawrence during the 1800’s.Lawrence is describing a storm in the Black Forest (a huge forest in southern Germany)‚ which he has seen when visiting there in July 1929. Lawrence describes the storm in powerful words and creates the point that humanity has not and probably cannot master the power of nature. . Lawrence has written the poem in free verse‚ there is an irregular pattern and no rhyming scheme which achieves a chaotic fell just like a storm.
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Speech #1 – Kennedy’s “Inaugural Address” Who is the speaker? John F. Kennedy‚ 35th president of the US What is the occasion? JFK’s inaugural Who is the audience? Citizens of the United States‚ communist countries‚ third world countries‚ S. America and any country possessing nuclear weapons What is the speaker’s purpose? To inspire and excite the audience of what he wanted to bring to the country. To inform the citizens and the rest of the world his goals during his presidency. How does
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8 Back when I was 8‚ I met a girl who became my most favorite person. We had ways & plans to prove to the world that we can make it through‚ Whether with or without the help of the people around us But‚ I’ve lost her The girl that I used to see when I wake up in the morning in a hot summer day The girl I used to play with under the high sun in an afternoon break The girl I used to sing with as we lay Under that old mango tree‚ I’ve lost her The girl who smiles with eyes full of
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Accent The ways in which words are pronounced. There will usually be pat terns in the way that consonants are pronounced (or dropped) and t he way vowel sounds are made. Accent can also vary according to the region or social class of a speaker. Context  The situation or circumstances in which speech takes place. This will impact greatly on the speech encounter and the way that speakers will vary their speech according to the recipients and the environment.  Dialect The distinctive grammar
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Spoken Language Study Look around you‚ on public transports‚ waiting in a queue or even at the dinner table and people are on their mobile phones. Many are inseparable from this device‚ not because they are perpetually talking but because they are constantly connecting with friends through text messaging. In this spoken language study I have collected a variety of research to explore views and opinions on texting and whether text messaging is hindering Standard English. Whilst conducting my research
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use sarcasm occasionally when speaking to friends which involves placing unusual stresses‚ a higher pitch and speech is often slower‚ louder and more forced to emphasise the statement. For example‚ “ well done Adam” becomes “well done Adam” when spoken sarcastically. Confidence also affects my pitch and when unsure I tend to speak with a rising pitch‚ almost as if it were a question. Such as once when talking to a strict & imposing teacher I was unsure whether I was allowed to leave ‚ I said
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Spoken by Virginia Wolfe‚ this quote immaculately captures the overall importance of Aphra Behn to women everywhere. A British playwright‚ poet and novelist‚ Aphra Behn was a woman amongst men. Though there has been no shortage of speculation regarding the facts surrounding her birth and parents‚ it is widely accepted that she was born to Bartholomew Johnson and Elizabeth Denham on July 10‚ 1640 just outside of Canterbury‚ UK. The first of many strides towards breaking down the walls of gender
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Butcher (2013) state that the purpose of language is to communicate‚ whether with others by talking and writing or with ourselves by thinking. There are many differences between speaking and writing in English and studies have been conducted to evaluate these differences (Chafe & Tannen‚ 1987). The spoken language is a transient (Crystal‚ 2005) and automatic response accompanied by body language‚ hand gestures‚ facial expressions and paralanguage. Unless speech is recorded‚ it becomes an immediate and
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