Hypothesis: text language is more like speaking to each other than written language

Text transcript:

B: oi wud

B: come to pem bay (Imperative)

J: my numbers all change whos this?

B: barnaby

J: barnaby

J: are you in town?

B: yeah

B: u coming in ? u – Logograms

J:nah (nah – more chilled than no. nos is kinda like a command whereas nah is more laid back)

J: what are you doing (is bit of a command but not

B: swimming at the wharf

J: wait i cant right now

J:maybe later

B: why that?

J: im busy

J:where will u be after?

B: probs at the lake (probs – Contraction shortened word)

J: haha sure (haha – speech like interjection)

j: ???

Spoken transcript:

union: yeah

Ranga: oh fanks for answering gezza know Wha a mean?

black boy: gimme dat, where you been fool, making us rinse out our credit leaving you messages and dat

ranga : mr daws is well on the walpath wif ya bruf yeah

union: cos of the bag and that

ranga: wat bag!? cos you missed a lesson you chief

back boy: give mi dat, the bag weren’t da problem texey never mentioned it ya BOtlled it

black boy: hey you coming to mine later to play to play computa

union: nah man, im not home now, ive got buisness ive got a run

black boyu: what buissness?!!(confused)

union: buissness at a mines at hom, (teeth sucking thing) im out

sample analysis:

Statement: text language often displays features of spoken communication that go beyond the range of conventional written text. when we speak to each other we convey information by visual; means like facial expression. this is called para-liguistic communication.

Example: A smile emoji, which can be constructed using punctuation marks, (:)) shows the reader in a text conversation that the text writer has a positive disposition in relation to what they have written.

Example 2: however; an important pitfall to recognise in relation to texting is the ease with which a writer can conceal their true emotion. Often when the words “i’m fine” are followed by a 🙂 the reader will trust the veracity of the statement. This could easily not be true.

plan

intro:

p1: texting shows some parts of spoken language in it

p2: effects of para-linguistic in spoken language

p3: how these are used in texting

p4:

conclusion: