Quotations - Language and Situation Flashcards
What example can I use for Student and Teacher?
Miss Bland
Educating Greater Manchester
How does Miss Bland use Face-Challenging?
Colloquial Imperative
“You’ve just gotta suck it up”
Future tense clause
“I’m gonna put you on report”
How does Miss Bland’s language change when on camera and talking to her students?
Downwards convergence when she is speaking to the boys
How does Miss Bland show convergence?
To Camera:
Prepositional phrase “on a negative spiral”
third person plural pronoun “they”
With Students:
elided present participle “goin” “pressin”
informal idiomatic clause “suck it up”
first person plural pronoun “we”
What example can I use for Doctors?
Sociolinguistics by Peter Stockwell
What are examples of the Doctor’s language when talking to another Doctor?
Colloquial Idiom “bugger all” to replace indefinite pronoun “nothing”
Technical word Occipital Language “A (drug’s pharmaceutical name)”
What are examples of the Doctor’s language when talking to a patient?
Downwards convergence: non-technical noun phrase “your breathing tablets”
Respects face: comforting noun phrase “no problem”
What are examples of the Doctor’s language when talking to a junior doctor?
Field Specific noun phrase “widespread miliary infection”
What example can I use to show language changes depending on the relationship with the audience?
BBC’s Question Time
2015 debate of general election campaigns
Nigel Farage and Ed Milliband
What are examples of Nigel Farage’s relationship with the audience?
Direct face threatening acts:
adjective phrase “pretty left wing”
noun phrase “a remarkable audience”
declarative “the real audience are sitting at home”
direct address/pseudopoliteness “please one of you have a go (.) please”
What are examples of Ed Miliband’s relationship with the audience?
Conventional appeal to audience by providing them with support by opposing Farage:
“it’s never a great idea to attack the audience Nigel”
