Category: Writing

The relationship between text and spoken language(essay)

October 5, 2015 / / 3 Comments

The language relationship between text language and spoken language is that there are many similarities between between them. If you compare how you speak to how you text is usually very similar.

When you compare your speaking to your texting, you may notice that many things are the similar or maybe even the same. Things like the words you use, the way you text may be the same as the way you would say something and another feature could be that if you have an accent it might show up in your texting. These things will probably show up in your texting because its part of who you are and its the way you communicate. Texting is usually informal so that is another reason why you might use slang that you might use when you are communicating to your friends. Another thing that is informal in texting is abbreviations like “LOL” for example.

One thing that is used in spoken language and text language is omission. Omission is used in texting very often. You may realise you do it, but normally you wont realise you do it, because it comes naturally to you. It might come naturally to you because its the way you normally talk to people, that is a reason why omission would show up in your texting. Omission is used quite a lot in speaking and texting, but more often used in texting because if you use omission in a text it is quicker to type but still really easy to understand for example “What you doing?” It gets rid of the extra words like “are” but it still makes sense. If you listen to a normal conversation you have, you probably will probably hear omission being using at some point. Even when you’re talking you will use omission like “You coming football today?”.

Emojis. Emojis represent facial expressions. So in a spoken conversation you would use your facial expressions to show how you are saying something and also show your emotions. But if you are texting you cant see peoples facial expressions so instead you use an emoji because your emotions and shows how something is being said, for example “shut up” if you add a laughing or smile emoji on the end it will show that you are not being serious just like how if you were talking your facial expressions would show how you are saying it. Emojis are the same as paralinguistic features.

Another feature in texting and speaking is the words you use. The range of words that you use in texting might be the same as when you speak. For example

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How does Shakespeare present fate in Julius Caesar (essay)

January 28, 2015 / / 1 Comment

In the play Julius Caesar whether you’ve read it or watched it you can tell that Shakespeare has made fate one of the most important parts of the play e.g. One really important parts of the play is when the soothsayer says “Beware the ides of March!” This quotation portrays fate in the play. Throughout the play you will hear talk about fate pop-up when people are having a discussion. You will notice fate has a big part to play in Julius Caesar. In Julius Caesar fate is mostly portrayed as inevitable.

In act 5 scene 1 Cassius and Brutus are having a conversation just before they go to battle. When they are talking they refer to fate they are saying things like ” the gods today stand friendly, that we may, lovers in peace, lead on to our days to age!”. In this conversation Brutus says “The ides of March have begun.” He is saying they have begun and cannot be prevented. I think that the figurative language is connotation because Cassius is saying that god is associated with deciding your fate.

In the play Julius Caesar the characters refer to fate at many points. In act 3 scene 1 just before Caesar gets murdered there is figurative language when Caesar says “I’m as constant as the Northern star.” The type of figurative language that is used in this quote is a simile because he is using ‘as’ so he is comparing himself to the northern star. The northern star is important and stands out and Caesar is trying to say that he is as important as the northern star and that his fate is that he will remain that important.

My opinion of fate in the play Julius Caesar is that it is vital for the play, because quite a lot of the play revolves around fate. In the play, fate is used often but sometimes it might not be so clear because quite a lot of the time fate is portrayed in figurative language e.g. Similes, metaphors, personification, connotation and other forms of figurative language.

Fate is portrayed to be pre-determined. In the play characters can get punished for either believing in fate or not believing in fate. An example of a character being punished for not believing in fate is when Caesars wife tries to convince Caesar to not go to the senate because she had a dream that Caesar would get killed. Her dream was that a statue of Caesar had blood coming out of it and that people were bathing in but eventually Caesar ignored her dream which was a vision of Caesars fate and when Caesar got to the senate he was punished for not believing in fate by being killed by the conspirators. When Caesar says that he is as constant as the northern star he is saying that he is bigger than fate and is immovable and that Caesar thinks that fate cannot determine his future and that only he can control what he does and what happens to him.

What is being showed here is that if a character believes that he is bigger than fate and that he controls what his future is and what can happen is punished for believing that. The clear example of that was when Caesar said that he was as “Constant as the northern star.” He got punished for it.

 

Satire

January 16, 2015 / / 0 Comments

Satire- The use of humour, irony, exaggeration or ridicule to expose and criticize peoples stupidity or vices, particularly in the context contemporary politics and other topical issues.