Spoken Language Essay
Algeo and 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 short lived experience to the targeted audience. Also, speech cannot be reviewed, edited or erased, unlike the written language.
However, it is a curious objective to follow. There is no physical evidence to suggest that humans enacted their ability to speak until April 9, 1860 when an unknown woman was recorded singing the “Claire de la lune” (seventeen years before Thomas Edison’s phonograph recording of “Mary had a Little Lamb”) (www.noiseaddicts.com, 2008). It is only reasonable to assume that humans …show more content…
These techniques are, as mentioned above, rather basic actions that accompany the phonology.
Much like an individual’s attempts to clarify their innocence or guilt, expertise or lack of, their hands communicate just as much to the audience as the speech itself (Weinschenk & Wise, 2012).
This is where the written language greatly differs. According to historians, the written language was created in circa 3200 BCE in Mesopotamia (modern day Iraq) by the Sumerian people. From what has been uncovered by historians, the first attempts at writing were anonymous, possibly handed down by oral traditions (Foreman, 2015). In addition to this, the earliest known reference to signed writings occurred around the same time and in the same place, by Enheduanna (c 2285 – 2250 BC), the priestess daughter of King Sargon of
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 short lived experience to the targeted audience. Also, speech cannot be reviewed, edited or erased, unlike the written language.
However, it is a curious objective to follow. There is no physical evidence to suggest that humans enacted their ability to speak until April 9, 1860 when an unknown woman was recorded singing the “Claire de la lune” (seventeen years before Thomas Edison’s phonograph recording of “Mary had a Little Lamb”) (www.noiseaddicts.com, 2008). It is only reasonable to assume that humans …show more content…
These techniques are, as mentioned above, rather basic actions that accompany the phonology.
Much like an individual’s attempts to clarify their innocence or guilt, expertise or lack of, their hands communicate just as much to the audience as the speech itself (Weinschenk & Wise, 2012).
This is where the written language greatly differs. According to historians, the written language was created in circa 3200 BCE in Mesopotamia (modern day Iraq) by the Sumerian people. From what has been uncovered by historians, the first attempts at writing were anonymous, possibly handed down by oral traditions (Foreman, 2015). In addition to this, the earliest known reference to signed writings occurred around the same time and in the same place, by Enheduanna (c 2285 – 2250 BC), the priestess daughter of King Sargon of