Essays about: "scripted speech"

Found 5 essays containing the words scripted speech.

  1. 1. Second language teachers’ and students’ attitudes toward World Englishes : Factors of comprehensibility and accent perception and acceptance

    University essay from Mittuniversitetet/Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap

    Author : Cendela Baptiste; [2022]
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    Abstract : This study aimed to investigate L2 Swedish teachers’ and students’ attitudes towards WE accents. The results suggest that Swedish language teachers have a positive attitude towards diverse English accents despite showing favoritism towards privileged varieties such as AmE and BrE. READ MORE

  3. 2. Flouting the maxims in scripted speech : An analysis of flouting the maxims of conversation in the television series Firefly

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur

    Author : Peter Szczepanski; [2015]
    Keywords : conversational maxims; cooperative principle; H.P. Grice; flouting; implicature;

    Abstract : Although conversations in television shows are supposed to mimic and represent everyday natural speech, they are written for a specific purpose. The aim of this paper is to find out what maxims are flouted the most in the television series Firefly and analyse what the effects of these flouts are. READ MORE

  4. 3. Representations of British teenage slang in the TV-series "Misfits" - A communicative approach to teenage slang

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Emilia Zotevska; [2014-01-15]
    Keywords : slang; teenagers; adolescence; Misfits; convergence; communication; goal; accomodation; sociolinguistics; communication accomodation theory; identity; group togetherness; solidarity; scripted speech; fictional speech; in-group; out-group;

    Abstract : The aim of this essay is to examine the functions of British teenage slang vocabulary from a communicative perspective and to analyse it in the social situations that occur in the TV-series Misfits. The language in Misfits can be considered a representation of the slang usage of British teenagers in general. READ MORE

  5. 4. Sociolinguistics of Swearing : A corpus-based investigation of male and female use of damn, darn, hell and heck in soap operas compared to real life

    University essay from Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Sabine Mårtensson Vahlqvist; [2013]
    Keywords : Damn; darn; heck; hell; soap operas; sociolinguistics; swearing;

    Abstract : This essay will investigate male and female usage of four swear words: hell, heck, damn and darn. A minor part of the essay focuses on comparing real life speech (by using the Longman Corpus of Spoken American English) with scripted language in soap operas (the SOAP corpus). READ MORE

  6. 5. Competitive Talk and the Three Main Characters in Supernatural

    University essay from Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikation

    Author : Ingeborg Dahlqvist; [2011]
    Keywords : English; gender; competitive talk; all-male interaction; television series; Supernatural;

    Abstract : This study focuses on all-male dialogues in the popular television series Supernatural. The purpose is to determine if and to what extent some linguistic features that are said to be characteristic of competitive talk among men occur in these dialogues. READ MORE