Monday, 28 April 2014

Formal And Informal Language


Formal and Informal Language

Colloquial language is informal language; it’s more of a spoken language rather than a written one. It includes contractions such as wouldn’t and can’t. We mirror colloquial language in our writing. Colloquial language might include slag and idiomatic language, these are cultural phrases that don’t really make sense ‘It’s raining cats and dogs’ this is only culturally understood. Euphemistic language is also another aspect of colloquial language, where you soften language ‘he’s dead’ ‘he passed away’. Hyperbolic language is where you exaggerate something. Colloquial language is reflecting spoken language.

Slang is a type of language that’s associated with groups of people; it can be regional ‘parmo’ ‘howay’ north east, ‘fam’ midlands. Slag can also be connected with generation, youth orientation slag, words you would use as a young person, ‘sound’ ‘mint’ ‘milf’

Puns are where phrases have two meanings; ‘dreamers never lie’ puns are rife with tabloid newspapers. It creates humor, to give it more excitement.

Formal Example

To be confident in your own body is important in my opinion. It is important not to take people’s opinions into consideration when thinking about your own body image. It is surprising to think how many teenage girls feel self-conscious about themselves. You should be lead to believe that imperfection is perfection; it would be interesting to see if I could change people’s perceptions on how they feel about their body image.

We all know you teen gal dem [TP1] want to be whoppers[TP2] , so you should stop eating all your parmos[TP3] . We know food is like heaven [TP4] and we’d love a slice of angel cake [TP5] but wouldn’t [TP6] it be proper [TP7] mint [TP8] to be as fit [TP9] as Michelle Keegan. Slug brows[TP10]  were so last year lasses[TP11] . Did you know though that if you eat too much you can pass o

 [TP1]Youth orientated slang
 [TP2]Youth orientated slang
 [TP3]Regional slang
 [TP4]similie
 [TP5]Pun
 [TP6]Contraction
 [TP7]Regional slang
 [TP8]Youth orientated slang
 [TP9]Youth orientated slang
 [TP10]Youth orientated slang
 [TP11]Regional slang

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