Speech vs writing Introduction to Linguistic. Spoken and written language presentation. Upper Primary B - Metalanguage. Modern english grammar. Meta Languages. Receptive skills. Related Books Free with a 30 day trial from Scribd. Related Audiobooks Free with a 30 day trial from Scribd. Dwania Duhaney Millen. Danyal Khan. Ayesha Sial. Azad Nakir , Student at University of Dhaka. Madiha Naz. Joyson Gangmei.
Sanju Singh. The written text is formal, even though not as formal as a letter or an essay, has an informative, formal feel to it. The written piece can also be referred back too if a reader requires to. Written text, most of the time, is more formal than spoken text. Unless the spoken text is planned written text contains better Standard English, and the flow of the words is smooth.
Although planned speech can change from a script when converted to speech. Speech contains more slang and can be more abusive. When speaking you have less time to think about what you are going to say than when writing it down. You can normally gain control of a conversation and express yourself appropriately. The subject is constantly changing. It stops the conversation becoming stale. The written text is focused on one specific area, the match report.
It is quite confined in the content and subject it talks about, the subject is football, which does not change, yet it does add outside information about Dario keeping the same team as on the Tuesday night.
There is no discourse between narrator and reader; it is a one-way piece of writing. This piece of writing also tends to give facts about the particular subject, not just opinions and explanations.
The piece has emotional balance. It adds some emotion into it. Language is shown differently by the constant change in tone, volume, pace, rhythm and stress of the words that are spoken. The prosodic features of the conversation make it more interesting, and more variable in the way it sounds. The sentences in the written text are in Standard English.
In a speech, the sentences are shorter, the language is easier to comprehend and there is plenty of repetition to reiterate important points. Most written text has a formal tone think essays, editorials, news stories, magazine articles etc. On the other hand most speeches have a conversational tone. Formal language turns people off and so most speakers use everyday language to connect with their audience. As a writer you can use plenty of statistics, citations and references to backup your argument.
However, as a speaker you cannot memorize all the statistics and references and more importantly the audience may not be able to fully comprehend and appreciate those statistics. Therefore, most successful speakers rely on personal narratives, anecdotes and emotional appeal over pure logic to communicate their message to the listeners.
An article can communicate across time and space for as long as the particular language and writing system is still understood. The purpose of all language is to communicate - that is, to move thoughts or information from one person to another person. There are always at least two people in any communication.
To communicate, one person must put something "out" and another person must take something "in". So language consists of four "skills": two for output speaking and writing ; and two for input listening and reading.
We can say this another way - two of the skills are for "spoken" communication and two of the skills are for "written" communication:. What are the differences between Spoken and Written English? Are there advantages and disadvantages for each form of communication? When we learn our own native language, learning to speak comes before learning to write. In fact, we learn to speak almost automatically.
It is natural. But somebody must teach us to write. It is not natural. In one sense, speaking is the "real" language and writing is only a representation of speaking. However, for centuries, people have regarded writing as superior to speaking. It has a higher "status". This is perhaps because in the past almost everybody could speak but only a few people could write.
But as we shall see, modern influences are changing the relative status of speaking and writing.
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