Thursday, 24 September 2015

How do the language features reflect the contextual factors of your given text?

Many language features that are used reflect the contextual factors in text A. For example The colloquail language used to open the text: 'how are yer doin', shows the spontaneous nature. specifically the idiolect shown in the pronoun 'yer' shows the informality and spontinaity of the text. If she wasnt in such a relaxed enviroment she would be more likely to used more planned formal speech and show less of her idiolect by speaking in  more standard tone.

Furthermore, later in the transcript the participant elongates the word 's:::o'. this shows that the participants speech is ephemeral and grammatically simple as this wouldnt be done in written text. It also shows her closeness to the other particiapnt as she would'nt feel the need to elongate and use words colloquially in a situation in which she doesnt feel comfortable.