Relationship between text and spoken language.
both text and spoken language have something obvious in common. You use them to communicate.
with text you’re basically communicating over text on phones or social network sites Lucy as Facebook. The only difference is that you can’t hear the persons voice and you don’t know what emotion the other person is currently in unless they tell you.
with spoken language you’re just speaking to the person in real life or over the phone or Skype. Anything to hear their voice really. With spoken language it’s easier because you just have to speak instead of taking a long time typing the text.
October 14, 2012 at 2:21 pm
This is a great start, Albert, because in this you explore some of the fundamental differences between the two forms of language.
Now what is needed is for you to give examples to support this. What I suggest is that you find some things that speaking and texting have in common and describe them (with specific examples) and then explore things that are different (again, with examples) – which you can then explain.
If you do this on here, I can give you feedback on the process.
Examples:
Common between both: use of idiom like “bare hungry”
Different: the presence of paralinguistic features in speaking and the attempts at offering these in text communication.
Let me know if you need any help.
CW