Sunday, 27 September 2015

Text A analysis


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

The language features reflect the text in many ways. One language feature that reflects the text is that the register is informal. We can see this throughout the whole text through phrases such as "yer" or "i mean like yeah". This shows that they must be quite close as they are very colloquial and use fillers such as "like" which you wouldn't use in a formal conversation/speech etc. This reflects the context as being chatty which links to the mode being spoken. This is because if the conversation is spoken the language is usually much more gramatically simple and very contexualised because it is easier to explain than it is in written mode.

Another language feature that is used in this text is fillers like i said before. These are words with little meaning in between sentences. We can see this through words such as "yeah" or "like". This add sto the sentence to fill a pause or also they can show understanding. When Kat says a long sentence Sue uses the word "yeah" to show that she is listening and understanding what Kat has to say, even though it may seem rude because she is interrupting, it is not because she is just showing that she is interested in the topic of the conversation about education. This links in with the register of the text being informal because you would not use words such as "like" in a formal speech or conversation, this is because fillers are usually used in colloquial type of conversations.