Analysing Texts: Spoken Frameworks

Terminology test
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What sort of utterances are said to be interactional ? What is the function of the following sentence: Your plane leaves from terminal 3 on Sunday morning ? Give an example of a phatic utterance What is the function of the following sentence: I am so excited for the party on Friday night! ? What sort of utterances are said to be referentia l? What is the function of the following sentence: Cold today, isn t it? ? Give an example of a transactional sentence What sort of utterances are said to be expressive ?

Spoken forms and functions

Learning Objectives 1. Know and understand the different functions of spoken language 2. Be able to identify these functions within real examples of spoken texts

What two types of spoken language are there?

Spontaneous 2. Planned (this conflicts with the oppositional viewpoint already!)
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3 Main Questions for spoken forms

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What type of spoken language is it? What are its purposes or functions? What factors are likely to have influenced the kind of language that is present?

Activity 2
 What are the functions of each of the texts? (use the

sheet to help)  Are there any texts that are multi-purpose? (a text with more than one purpose, can also be called multimodal)  What factors are likely to have influenced the language that is present? (think about context)