Match the phrase to the presenter

1. Controlled Assessment 3: Spoken Language • Analysing how speakers adapt for different purposes • Using Spoken Language Features • Public attitudes to spoken language Match the phrase to the presenter Your weekend starts right here! Nice to see you, to see you nice. No likey no lighty It’s time to talk to the house… Welcome to the Dream Factory

2. Your task: Investigate the ways spoken language is used by a television presenter. • You should have with you your transcribed speech that you completed for homework. • Over the next few weeks you will analyse this data in relation to lexis, phonology, grammar and discourse. This may sound alien to you now, but by the time you come to complete your controlled assessment you will be confident with a variety of talk terms. • Today we are going to study LEXIS! • Analysing how speakers adapt for different purposes • Using Spoken Language Features • Public attitudes to spoken language Controlled Assessment 3: Spoken Language

3. STOP! • Before we go any further, you need some A3 paper on which you will collate the new terminology that you will learn over the next few weeks. • Every time time you learn a new term make a note of it on your mind map. • It should look a little like this…

4. Spoken Language

5. What is LEXIS? A term in linguistics for the vocabulary of a language. In relation to television presenters, we need to examine their choice of words. Let’s revisit the bell task… • Analysing how speakers adapt for different purposes • Using Spoken Language Features • Public attitudes to spoken language Controlled Assessment 3: Spoken Language

6. Nice to see you, to see you nice. No likey no lighty How were you able to complete this activity? It’s time to talk to the house… Welcome to the Dream Factory Your weekend starts right here! The individual’s way of speaking is their idiolect. Controlled Assessment 3: Spoken Language • Analysing how speakers adapt for different purposes • Using Spoken Language Features • Public attitudes to spoken language

7. When I was on teaching practice as a 23 year old student teacher, my University lecturer held up a sign saying: “STOP SAYING ALRIGHT!” “Alright”…”Alright”…”Alright…” How does this link to idiolect? How does this link to contextual factors? Controlled Assessment 3: Spoken Language • Analysing how speakers adapt for different purposes • Using Spoken Language Features • Public attitudes to spoken language

8. Why did young Mr Bell keep saying “Alright”? What effect did this have on the idiolect of young Mr Bell? Controlled Assessment 3: Spoken Language • Analysing how speakers adapt for different purposes • Using Spoken Language Features • Public attitudes to spoken language

9. Two types of Context Speaker Identity Situational Factors Topic Setting Purpose Status Comfort • Regional origin • Social class • Age • Occupation • Gender • Analysing how speakers adapt for different purposes • Using Spoken Language Features • Public attitudes to spoken language Controlled Assessment 3: Spoken Language

10. “Alright”? – The Idiolect of ME Why did young Mr Bell keep saying “Alright”? What effect did this have on the idiolect of young Mr Bell? Topic - teaching Setting - classroom Purpose – check understanding Status – slightly high over the class; low over the tutor Comfort – extraordinarily nervous • Regional origin – Geordie • Social class – working class upbringing – perhaps wanting to be down with the kids? • Age – young man acting like a profession • Occupation – bad teacher • Gender – male - bossy • Analysing how speakers adapt for different purposes • Using Spoken Language Features • Public attitudes to spoken language Controlled Assessment 3: Spoken Language

11. Idiolect • The personal language or speech of one individual at a particular period in life • This can include: • The words they choose to use (including personal or invented words and phrases) • Their use (or misuse) of grammar • Their tone of voice and pronunciation (including mispronunciations) • Their manner of speaking e.g. speed, emphasis on particular words, how many words they use etc. • Analysing how speakers adapt for different purposes • Using Spoken Language Features • Public attitudes to spoken language Controlled Assessment 3: Spoken Language

12. What a Sh-unique idiolect she has…(Dot, dot, dot) • Analysing how speakers adapt for different purposes • Using Spoken Language Features • Public attitudes to spoken language Controlled Assessment 3: Spoken Language

13. Spoken Language

14. How would you describe Nicole Scherzinger’s idiolect? • X Factor • What is your opinion of Nicole’s idiolect? Remember, in your controlled assessment you must be able to reflect on attitudes towards spoken language. • Read the article from The Daily Mail Online. What views are presented in relation to Nicole’s idiolect? • Analysing how speakers adapt for different purposes • Using Spoken Language Features • Public attitudes to spoken language Controlled Assessment 3: Spoken Language

15. Accent and Dialect • Hawaiian born Nicole has an American accent. She may use words and phrases that the British viewers aren’t familiar with because they are part of her dialect. • Lets look at accent and dialect in more detail… • Analysing how speakers adapt for different purposes • Using Spoken Language Features • Public attitudes to spoken language Controlled Assessment 3: Spoken Language

16. Accent and Dialect • Accent: Difference in pronunciation, generally of the same language.Dialect: Noticeable differences in words, syntax, structure, and rules of a language. • Analysing how speakers adapt for different purposes • Using Spoken Language Features • Public attitudes to spoken language Controlled Assessment 3: Spoken Language

17. Accent and Dialect: TASK • How many accents can you name? • How many words and phrases can you think of that relate to Geordie dialect? **Remember you are going to focus on ‘Ant’ and ‘Dec’ so accent and dialect are particularly important). We are going to have an accent and dialect race. One half of the class are going to write a list of accents on the whiteboard, whilst the other half of the class are going to write a list of Geordie dialect words on the whiteboard. You need to nominate a team representative to compile the list on the whiteboard. What do you know better? Accents or Dialect? • Analysing how speakers adapt for different purposes • Using Spoken Language Features • Public attitudes to spoken language Controlled Assessment 3: Spoken Language

18. Back to Scherzinger… • Some people may argue that Scherzinger uses certain words/ phrases (shamazing, amazeballs etc.) to encourage a rapport between herself and her fans - the British public. This is also know as convergence. • Convergence occurs when a person changes their speech to match the person they are speaking to. I do it all the time, but it usually results in you lot thinking I’m pathetic whilst trying to act ‘cool’! • Analysing how speakers adapt for different purposes • Using Spoken Language Features • Public attitudes to spoken language Controlled Assessment 3: Spoken Language

19. Convergence and Divergence • Speakers can also use divergence. This will occur when a person changes their speech to mismatch the person they are speaking to. This can create a division between the two speakers. • When have you diverged? • Analysing how speakers adapt for different purposes • Using Spoken Language Features • Public attitudes to spoken language Controlled Assessment 3: Spoken Language

20. Standard English vs. Slang • Slang is: an informal non-standard variety of speech characterized by newly coined (shamazing) and rapidly changing words and phrases. • Standard English is: the variety of English that is generally accepted as the model for the speech and writing of educated speakers • Is one better than the other? • Analysing how speakers adapt for different purposes • Using Spoken Language Features • Public attitudes to spoken language Controlled Assessment 3: Spoken Language

21. Card Board • Analysing how speakers adapt for different purposes • Using Spoken Language Features • Public attitudes to spoken language Controlled Assessment 3: Spoken Language

22. I’m not in on Thursday or Friday as I have to travel to a horrible place called New York…for free!!! • You will need to work in pairs with one member of each pair using their smartphone. You will need to download QR Scanner before the lesson. • You will find one of my selected websites on Ant and Dec’s speech. • You will need to transcribe their speech. • You will then need to annotate the data finding aspects of lexis. There will be helpsheets for you, but this must be complete or we will be behind and you will get worse marks for your controlled assessment than the other classes. • So get it done! Alright? • Analysing how speakers adapt for different purposes • Using Spoken Language Features • Public attitudes to spoken language Controlled Assessment 3: Spoken Language