Even before the dawn of civilisation‚ people have been talking to one another. The earliest record of written communication stretches back almost 5‚400 years ago‚ and some speculate that spoken languages have been around for at least 100‚000 years – around 60% of human existence‚ or 15 times as long as civilisation itself. (Derbyshire) Languages are the building blocks of communication – sets of words related to one another so that people understand the world around them and the intents of others
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Variety of Spoken Communication Many aspects of spoken communication are distinct in their uses of language. This distinction is for the fact that each variety of spoken communication‚ in return‚ uses the functions of language in their own specific ways and for their own specific purposes. Language of radio announcers is but one form which illustrates this distinction and the discussion of this essay attempts to explore the use of language within this variety of spoken communication – through
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Spoken Language Study Lord Sugar’s idiolect stands out in this transcript because it’s completely different to the candidates. His language features are very informal which is surprising considering they are in a boardroom and you would expect everyone to be professional‚ especially Lord Sugar‚ as he is the boss. Alan’s informality is shown with his cockney accent and the fact he uses elision and slang in his dialect‚ such as “dunno”‚ “talkin” and “should’a”. This shows that is so assured with
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‘Text has added to language use’ Explore a range of texts to investigate to what extent is it true‚ referring to public attitude and describing how you and others adapt to spoken language for specific purposes speaker one when speaking to speaker two starts with only phonetic representation with the word you (‘u’) but as he sinks into the conversation he then goes on to use carious language devices like omission when he says ‘gdgd’ instead of good good‚ he also uses initials when saying ‘OMG’ and
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Spoken language controlled assessment How do TV chefs adapt and change their language to suit their audience and purpose? There are as many different styles and variations of spoken language as there are people on Earth as language is an abundant ocean of creativity that will never dry up. The inventions of modern day technology such as the TV have meant that English spoken language is as varied now as it has ever been; you only have to flick through the TV channels to discover the differences
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LANGUAGE WRITTEN AND SPOKEN‚ WHICH ONE IS MORE IMPORTANT? INTRODUCTION As we already know for humans since childhood becomes easily to learn spoken language before written language. However‚ after learn how to speak‚ written language becomes more stable than spoken language‚ it is because human rely on their eyes more than ears. Since spoken language and it written form represent the same meaning‚ it is necessary to find out which is determinate and which is secondary. In this report will be
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Reflection on Differences between written and spoken discourse People use the language for communicating through coherent and cohesive stretches of language. In other words‚ they normally use more than a couple of words and sentences; they produce longer stretches of language by putting words and sentences together. These chunks of language must follow each other and be connected in a logical way in order to transmit a specific message. This process is called discourse‚ and its linguistic product
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Spoken language assessment In this essay I will be analysing a transcript from a Newsnight show featuring Jeremy Paxman‚ Baroness Amos and Dizzee Rascal. I will be talking about the effects of choices in the use of standard and non-standard forms of spoken language. Often the situation influences the structure and fluency of the conversation. Especially in this situation the location of the debate is a key factor that tests the rule of conversation‚ because each person is in different studios there
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Good morning everyone. I’m the chairperson of the English Club. Today‚ I’m going to share a topic to all of you. But first‚ let me ask you two questions. Are you bored with reading‚ grammar and writing? Would you like to find a more fun and entertaining method to improve your English? I believe you all will have the same answer‚ right? In fact‚ listening to English songs is a useful and interesting way to learn English. It might be one of the best ways to retain or remember vocabulary and grammar
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4.6.13 Questionnaire for English controlled assessment – media chef 1. What chef do you prefer to watch on your TV screens; Nigella Lawson or Gordon Ramsay? --------------------------------------------------------2. Circle the answer; Does the chef you like use paralinguistic? YES NO 3. Circle the answer; Do you prefer it when your chef of your choice speak formally or informally? YES NO Why? --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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