The English
language consists both of written and spoken features. Until recently, items
and structures most typically found in spoken language have not been fully
described. Most grammars of English have had a bias towards the written
language.
They are
many differences between spoken and written English. Text A and B show written
and spoken versions of an account of a days activities.
Text A is a
written account of these activities, while Text B is a transcript of the spoken
account.
The major
differences between spoken and written English are, sentences in the written
sense for example units beginning with capital letters, consisting of at least
one main clause and ending in a full stop are…show more content…
Examples of
this can be found in Text B, here she mentions ‘..started with er the getting
my dinners on (3.0) er was pretty straightforward then..’ Here we know what the
speaker is talking about, however if this was written text then the opening
‘was pretty straightforward’ makes no sense to the reader. Another major
distinction between spoken English and written English is the omission or
slurring of syllables in the spoken language, this is called Elision. Words
like ‘going to’ are slurred to ‘gonna’ and ‘want to be’ to ‘wannabe’ this is
very common in speech as this is deliberately done to elide the sounds of the
words for accent, regional dialect ect.
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