Analysis

Looking at both of the trasncripts, it is clear that the ambulance call transcript has more use of spontaneous speech as opposed to the vlog. The vlog has obviously been scripted to some extent as well as they know what they are going to talk about and it has been planned out. The amount of spontaneous features in the first transcript, such as interruptions and pauses are frequent in the first transcript, however in the second transcript of the vlog, the number of spontaneous language features are fewer. The fact that the video has been edited to cut out any long pauses to decrease the time of the video has been used for effect, influences the amount of spontaneous speech features within the transcript. However, like the use of an outline script on the volg transcript, the woman on the pther end of the phone to the 6 yea old boy, Liam, obviously has trained experience and has a certain criteria to ask the person on the phone to find out certain information about them and the incident that has happened. This then decreases the amount of unknown spontaneous conversation for the phone receptionist.

Transcript no. 2

Marcus Butler - How girls get ready

key: * means the cut of the video, such as editing the clips

Helloo^* how y'all doing* you alright^? (1) yeah? (.) Cool. Anyway, ladies, gentlemen, boys and girls, (2)* yep (.) I wanted to talk about girls getting ready today * being a girl must be soo fricking hard * The amount of times some of you girls spend getting ready is craa^zzzyyyyyy * dat shit cray * I'm not talking about all girls, because obviously I (.) don't have a perspective on all girls * Girls'll usually spend about three to four hours getting ready (.) * The first thing will be the most important thingon the agenda, is (.) what to wear. Planning for this event can sometimes go on for daays, weeks and maybe even months before it actually (.) even happens (breathes in through teeth) (2) they'll spend agggess abd aggesss and ages picking out this perfect outfit, (1) and then when it actually comes to the night of getting ready, (.) they usually end up having a little bit of a hissy fit. (high pitched voice to impersonate a girl''s voice) Uhh I've just got not^hing to wear (sobbing) I've got noth^ing to wear-heherr!

Transcript

6 Year Old boy 999 Emergency Call, Liam

Phone receptionist: Hello, Ambulance service (3)

Liam: Um (1)

                |What’s the problem?

Liam: Me mam’s fainted (.)

Phone receptionist: Are you with your mam now?

Liam: Yeah

Phone receptionist: (1) And where is she?

Liam: (2) She’s in the sitting room

                                                                |Ah right, could you take the phone next to where she is?

Liam: (5) Here

Phone receptionist: (4) Hello?

Liam: It’s here

Phone receptionist: Are you next to your mum now?

Liam: (.) Yeah

Phone receptionist: Okay, now what I need you to do is give a good shake of her shoulders (.), and shout her name in her ear and tell me what she does

Liam: (3) um, mam, (1), mam. (3) she’s not, she’s not doing anything

Phone receptionist: Alright, what’s your mum’s name?

Liam: Rebecca

Phone receptionist: ‘n’ what’s your name?

Liam: Liam

Phone receptionist: So is anybody at home with you now Liam?

Liam: (.) No

Phone receptionist: No?

Liam: Just me mam

Phone receptionist: Okay, now does it look like your mum’s been bleeding from anywhere? (1), Can you see any blood?

Liam: No

Phone receptionist: Does she look like she’s hurt at all?

Liam: (2) No

Phone receptionist: No? Okay (2) Now are you alright to get your door open, Liam?

Liam: yeah

Phone receptionist: Yeah? (.) Is your door unlocked?

Liam: I’ll have a look

Phone receptionist: Do you wanna go and have a look? Yeah

Liam: (2) Yeah

Phone receptionist: It’s unlocked, yeah?

Liam: (.) Mhhm

Phone receptionist: (1) And do you just live at home with you mam or do you live at home with anyone else?

Liam: Me dad, but me dad’s not in

Phone receptionist: Ahh where’s your dad?

Liam: he’s at skittles

Phone receptionist: ah is he? Mnn okay (1) Now where abouts is your mam lying, is she on her belly or is she lying on her back, or her side?

Liam: Belly

Phone receptionist: She’s lying on her belly?

Liam: Yeah, I can’t

                    | Can you try and roll her over Liam? Can you roll her over so she’s lying on her side?

Class Work Text

In Tuesday's lesson, my table and I looked at the quote by Johnny Depp:-

"If you love two people at the same time, choose the second one because if you really loved the first one, you wouldn't have fallen for the second."

After having a group discussion between the group that was on my table, we found out that through analysing the quote, the quotation uses personal pronouns, 'you', using a direct mode of address to speak to the reader specifically. It could also be argued that this quote uses Fairclough's synthetic personalisation, as it assumes that the reader knows what he is on about and also that the reader actually loves the second person more than the first. Without knowing the reader's circumstances, it assumes that the reader can relate to this quotation.

We also discussed Deborah Tannen's theory of Advice Vs Feelings, and it is significant that the quote gives advice as well as being said by a male. This fits perfectly into the category of Language and Gender roles. This specific quotation also has influential power, as it is advice that the reader can choose to take or not, however due to Johnny Depp's high status in society due to his fame, means that there is a use of instrumental power, giving him more power over the reader to listen to his quote.

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The text that we chose out of the texts we were given was the news feed from Twitter. After discussing the elements of language in this text, we decided that there was a combination of both, influential and instrumental power. The use of instrumental power is that the account that had the news feed followed celebrities, and due to their fame and popularity, it means that their higher status gives them more advantages to be followed by the account that we had a screenshot of their news feed. We also discussed that the celebrities have the power over what their followers see and consume. However there is also influential power, as the person's Twitter account has authority over who they follow, meaning that if they see any posts or tweets they do not agree with, they can either unfollow or report/block the celebrity Twitter user. 

Users on Twitter tend to write tweets that are very opinionated, meaning that it could affect the face threatening acts and politeness strategies. This is why we noticed that a lot of celebrities use "in my opinion" to reduce less offence to their followers.