P1: speaking and text based language are very creative in the way they present nuance to change the interpretation of a sentence or to enhance the meaning of the sentence so to make the purpose of the sentence more clear.
P2: firstly, it is apparent that speech and text language are very creative in their use of nuance such as emotion, which in speech is shown through body language, gestures and tone of voice to convey how the speaker is feeling.
P3: secondly, another way that these forms of language have been used creatively is the incorporation of gestures to put further meaning in to the sentance.
P4: Spoken and text language are very creative in the way that it has developed across the world, with every culture and every country having slightly different dialect and idioms, a good example of this is south east London where the speech is very idiomatic and rich with paralinguistic features. Include public view of teenage slang
P5: The creativity of these two types of language real further shown by the use of tone of voice and pitch to communicate more then the words of the sentence have already conveyed.
p6: I belive that spoken and text language are extremely creative due to the fact that it is developing very fast with new slang terms and idioms being invented rapidly.
October 19, 2012 at 11:47 pm
These paragraphs are well-organised, though they also look a little repetitive. It might only be my interpretation of your notes – but do be sure each paragraph in your final piece states a separate point.
Because you’re talking about the nuance added by prosody (the sound, pause, intonation, volume, tone, accent) and the paralinguistic features of spoken language – I would recommend you use sarcasm as an example. This is because it is inherently dependent on tone of voice or facial expression to work. Scarcasm is essentially where you say the opposite of what you mean, but your tone and delivery makes this very clear.
An interesting question is: Can a person be sarcastic in a text message?
My criticisms aside, your essay is shaping up to be interesting and thoughtful and I look forward to reading any practice work you do and then the final piece.
CW