Keywords and Definitions

Locution - Literal Sense. "A child asks their mother 'Can i go out to play?' The response is..." 

Example: Locution - "It's raining" Illocution - "You can't go out" Perlocution - "I am not allowed to play out".


Illocution - Implied Meaning. Example: (Implied Meaning) "You get the phone" - "You can't go out" - It's you, It's not me".


Pragmatics - ' The practical ability to use language in a social setting and changing social situations. Knowing what is appropriate to say, where and when to say it; and the give and take nature of conversation. ' Underline meaning of what someone thinks.



Phatic Language - Small talk and fillers.

Formality - The way people speak and the tone that they use.

Deixis - Word that refers to something else (point).

Pronoun - A word used in place of a noun e.g he, her, his, them, it, out, they, we and you.

Context Dependent - When you need to know the context to understand it.

Context Independent - When theres a information and everyone can understand the context.

Cultural Assumptions - Most Pragmatic assumptions rely on Cultural assumptions. A person from another country or culture may not understand things that we know.

Conversation

C: "Seds, shall we go cinema tomoz? xx"
S: "Hey ceyds, I don't know because I have a lot of homework to do and its due on Monday xx"
C: " Me too but I thought we could have a relaxing day tomoz and do all homework on sunday xx"
S: "I will ask my mum xx"
C: "Tamam seds xx let me know before tomorrow though ok? x"
S: "okay xxx"
*20 minutes later*
S: "My mum said I can come and after you can come to my house and we can do our work together xx"
C: "yay! okay :) xxxx"
S: "Do you wanna stay for dinner too? xx"
C: "yeah okay :) xx"
S: " :D okay we can eat Turkish food ;D xx"
C: "Hahahaha, okay :) what movie should we watch? not one direction ;)"
S: " why hahahaha awww :("
C: "Bc you already watched it!!"
S: "Fine! lets watch white house down?"
C: "I already watched that :("
S: "Ohh :( about time?"
C: "Okay :DD tomorrow 12:00?"
S: "Wait lets check cinema times first x"
C: "Okay"
*10 minutes later*
C: "About time is playing at 1:00 tomorrow so lets meet up at 12:00? xx"
S: "Okay, I will see you tomorrow, goodnight xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
C: "goodnight seds xxxxxxxxxx"

Terminology

Pragmatics - ' The practical ability to use language in a social setting and changing social situations. Knowing what is appropiate to say, where and when to say it; and the give and take nature of conversation. ' Underline meaning of what someone thinks.


Speech Act Theory - Speech Act Theory contains Locution, Illocution and perlocution.
Example:
Speaker A: Mary's invited us to lunch. Do you wanna go?
Speaker B: Sure. [ I'm not busy right now. [ Why not?
Speaker A: [ Good [ I'll come by in about thirty minutes
Speaker B: Think we oughta bring [ anything?
Speaker A: [ No, but i'll bring some wine anyway.


Locution - Literal Sense.
"A child asks their mother 'Can i go out to play?' The response is..."
Locution - "It's raining" Illocution - "You can't go out" Perlocution - "I am not allowed to play out"


Illocution - Implied Meaning.
Example:
(Implied Meaning) "You get the phone" - "You can't go out" - It's you, It's not me"

Methods of communication

The BBC News uses different types of communication; written communication and spoken communication. The BBC News website uses more written communication because there are lots of articles that are written. On the BBC News page there's an article for the ' United Airlines to honour tickets issued for $0 in glitch ', this is a method of written communication because its written information, not in the form of a video.

The photo below shows the different types of modes that you can use, These are Mobile, Connected TV, News feeds and E-mail news.

Analysis of a text message

The shortening of names shows that the two participants are close companions, who have known each other for a while. The punctuation use shows emotion such as excitement. One of the participants has used two question marks instead of one, this shows that both of the friends are excited to go Bike-riding. The use of 'slang' words indicates the closeness of the two friends. As well as, the usage of 'slang' words are often used to shorten conversations and certain words.

Electronic Modes

Modern Technological

• Radio
• Telephone
• Ipad
• Tablets
• Laptop/ Computer
• TV
• Emails
• Mobile
• Skype

Mobile - Interactive
Laptop/ computer - Interactive
Skype - One way communication
Telephone - Interactive

George Orwell

George Orwell's essay on politics and the English Language.

George Orwell criticises contemporary English prose for its disgusting and "inaccurate" use of the Language. He argues that Language is not shaped for our own use by ourselves like it should be but rather modern prose isn't sensible. Instead of thoughts being a result of Language, Language has become results of thoughts. George Orwell also argues that the political writers of modern English prose use vocabulary that are not needed. This leads to the lack of understanding and meaning of many words. He states that in order to have a clear prose, the political writer must be honest in their writing otherwise it will be pointless. He supports his argument with a solution that says the inaccuracy of political writing and modern day English prose can be reversed. It can be done by avoiding the meaning of words and phrases.

I agree with George Orwell because i believe the quality of the vocabulary in English Language has worsened over the past years. Nowadays, I think that there has been more usage of “slang” words within society.