Chart

Been researching and found a very interesting chart from 0-6/7 years on how language is developed.

Summary of the Transcript on Zachy (2;4) drawing a banana

During the speech, a supportive and questioning tone. This means that Zachy speaks to the parent because of the tone that the Mother has, which is of encouragement. On the first turn taken by H (Mother), they use "Darling" after saying "What?" We understand through this that she is trying to use a politeness strategy to mitigate what she is saying. This ensures that the child feels more able to answer to H as he feels comfortable that she is not being judged by his language.

Throughout the speech, H uses many open questions including "what else have we had?" This identifies how she is encouraging her son to speak and continue to speak to make longer turns. We can see that it encourages him to continue to speak on a recent topic that he has been completing previously in the day. This means that we can notice the skills of encouraging the child to continue talking as she asks questions in order to continue the speech development. Also, she uses the 1st person "plural" to show that she is encouraging him about group work and collaboration. It enables him to know that not everything is centred around the singular first person with "I".

Additionally, H uses echoing and repetition to repeat what Zachy has just said. For example: Zachy says "a banana and 3 things in the banana" and H replies with "a banana and what? 3 things?" This identifies that she is encouraging Zachy that the speech that he is saying is correct and questioning whether he knows what he is talking about. This develops his speech by allowing him to see that he is speaking correctly in areas of his speech. It will also allow him to see where he can develop in his speech and expand what he is saying.

Within H's speech, she uses praise to allow Zachy to see where he has used his language in a correct way or starts to read. H says "you are a star little man." This highlights that he has used language correctly. The use of the noun "star" has positive connotations and shows to Zachy the positivity that is used.

Non-standard Pronunciations
7 uses of non-standard pronunciations

Homework: Magazine extract and paragraphs of commentary

DO YOU APPRECIATE EVERYONE'S LANGUAGE?
 

But do you appreciate how a range of different cultures and sex speak? "Yo man!" is this socially correct for the workplace or is "sir" to formal? We have so many ways to speak and communicate with others but is anyway seen as wrong?

Should a relaxed environment mean a diverse range of speech or should we use Standard English. Picture: (SOURCE)https://personnel.ky.gov/Pages/Mediation-Information.aspx



The workplace has changed over such a short time period. With a life based around social networking and technology, do you actually know how to speak in a work situation and how to appreciate how people speak? There are many sub-cultures that you need to learn the different speech and how it varies but we all speak the same language and this is interesting that we have diverse speech.

Does this even matter?

We know that women can sometimes use weaker adjectives, sometimes, than men as Robin Lakoff says and men are more dominant and "macho" in all men speak. Does this even matter? We all accommodate our language for each other to understand. This should be appreciated within the workplace we all have our own variety of language.

 

However, language that we use though should have some structure in a workplace. Isn't a "Standard English" needed so that we can communicate and understand what is going on? The language we use is important and because of the diversity that we now have in language, it means that we could get the "wrong end of the stick."

 

Tips for you in the workplace

• Speak in a 'standard' form.
• Make sure that you understand everything that is being said to you.
• Understand that everyone's speech is 'normal' and should be taken as it is.

Commentary

Within my media article, I have used the structure so that it can be seen by the reader as being a magazine article. I used a image with a caption. This means that it shows the reader of a person in a workplace what the perfect environment for working should be and mean that they can identify that verbal communication and diversity that there will be in their speech. The picture allows them to put themselves in the situation. They can see that this is a magazine article with the image as it shows the main focus of the article and means that the reader is able to be focused on it.

 

 

Also, I used a pull quote of "Does this even matter?" which is then used in the following paragraph of text. This emphasises to the reader the main subject of the text. Due to the use of the interrogative, it emphasised the opinion of the reader needed to be taken into account. It allows the reader to think about what they are reading and therefore take in the articles subject on using diverse language.

 

The article is written using the second person pronoun "you" and the third person pronoun "we." This makes the magazine article feel inclusive and allow the reader to feel involved in the article. This has created a 'Synthetic Personalisation' with the reader and allows the article creates a bond with the reader to make them want to continue reading the article. By creating the false relationship, it means that they understand the information to a better extent and feel as they are wanted. This makes the reader understand the topic and abide by the information they are being told as the writer is persuading them to be able to speak "properly" but appreciate diverse language that we have.

Additionally, I have used bullet points to create a less formal tone which a magazine will have. This will make the reader feel as if they can take the "tips" and do as the magazine instruct them to do with the use of imperatives "Speak...." which emphasises the persuasion that the article is trying to do in a work situation.