Category Communication

Kamrul’s Interpretation of the poem “Hawk Roosting” from Edutronic.net on Vimeo.

Hawk Roosting by Ted Hughes is all about nature and how nature works. In this poem, the example he uses is a hawk and its in the first person viewpoint of the hawk. The story goes from the hawk sitting… Continue Reading →

Text messaging and spoken language can be very creative in many ways. There are specific features that can be used to add creativity in a conversation and I am going to talk about them in my essay. Both text messaging… Continue Reading →

In spoken language, paralinguistic and linguistic features can add enormous amounts of creativity to a conversation. Paralinguistic features are non verbal communications that are used while having a spoken conversation for example, body language or facial expressions Linguistic features are… Continue Reading →

The story begins when four-year-old Richard sets fire to his grandmother’s house in Jackson, Mississippi, and, as punishment, is nearly beaten to death by his mother. He recovers, and the brutal punishment establishes in Richard an ability to survive any… Continue Reading →

Text messaging today is much closer to speaking than it is to writing. This is because people – mainly youth – prefer to write more like the way they speak, rather than writing in standard English. This suggests that when… Continue Reading →

My transcript is based on a video I made with Mark, Alex and Soren. There are many features that aren’t used in writing that are used in the video. These are called paralinguistic and linguistic features. In my transcript, Alex… Continue Reading →

Friend: Hey Me: Hey yo Friend: Whatcha doing? Me: Nothing Friend: Gonna watch the match? Me: No, it’s only ukraine Friend: lol Me: Who are you supporting next World Cup? Friend: Brazil and Spian. Spain* Me: oh wow What would… Continue Reading →

Mark: Hey awww (dialect) Alex you know how awkward it is talking to a camera. Kamrul: Yeah because they don’t talk back do they? (Rhetorical) Alex: It’s bare (Slang) rude innit? (Dialect) Mark: (laugh) Yeah because it seems so forced… Continue Reading →