Analyzing Speech Etc
...of words vary to fit in with people and/or social situations we are put in. The meaning of face, in oratorical terms, refers to a person’s image in conversation, the way that they interact and respond ? to others. If someone displays a positive face then they are expressing themselves through speech to be liked or desirable to others who are listening. Presenting a negative face conveys language that one doesn’t want to impose on others, for example when making a statement or expressing an opinion ending their statement with ‘Do you? Maybe,’ or starting a sentence with ‘I’m sorry but.’ A Face threatening act therefore involves disrupting and being more direct in conversation, this can affect that persons face, or self-esteem. Examples of this may be if a teacher tells a student that there are areas of their learning that needs development rather than saying your work is rubbish, this would being a face saving act.
Collocation
Collocations are words which commonly occur together to convey a particular message to the reader. The relationship between a group or pairing of words can portray many meanings. For example the word bank, on its own it has its own meaning, usually a financial institution, however if you place the word bank with other words, such as holiday, account, river, these all present different meanings when put in collocation with another word. Norman Fairclough (2007, p73) provides evidence that repetition and collocation is popular with politicians as it reinforces an argument, in this case ‘New Labour’ and modernisation, reform and renewal, showing ‘New Labour’ as encompassing these views.
Nominalisation
Nominalisation is often used for formal texts and academic English; it replaces or evolves a sentence into a noun phrase. Nominalisation sentences make the syntactic form more precise? and lexically dense as words are chosen and...
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