Creativity in Spoken, Text and web-based Language.

In this essay I am going to explore the creativity used in spoken, text and web-based language. I am going to explore the different tools of communication and what effect they have in convocation, also I am going to analyse how people use them in different ways due to their social group or age.

Spoken language is creative due to the uniqueness of the features used in the everyday convocation individual’s experience. A very creative tool in spoken language is paralinguistic features these involve body language or facial expressions. Sarcasm in spoken language involves paralinguistic features but also tone of voice, for example “naaaa” could be changed from just verbal filler to convey someone is wrong to a sarcastic way to indicate the last statement from the individual he/she is talking to was an obvious one. They could convey this in different ways; they could use a paralinguistic feature which would involve for example a ‘roll of the eyes’ this statement “naaaa” and the paralinguistic feature would most defiantly indicate sarcasm is involved.

Texting is a very creative way to communicate; it is very creative due to the features it involves. One creative tool in texting is emoticons these are a replacement from a paralinguistic feature they involve symbols included on the keys on any phone to make up a facial expression, an example of an emoticons would be ‘J’ this face is built up of : and ), these two symbols make up a smiley face. This is creative as people have found an alternative way to express emotions through an electronic device.  Sarcasm in texting can be hard to convey but there is a way of which people try to show a hint of sarcasm in a text, one way of doing this would be by including a repetition of a letter, for example “naaaa” the repetition of the letter a conveys a slight hint of sarcasm. As you can see this links to spoken language and you could suggest that this tool to convey sarcasm has deprived from spoken to text language.

Web-based language is creative in a similar way to text language as the convocation is through an electrical device.  The features in web-based language would be in same, but there is a difference in the way that web-based language involves much more non-formal statements, these statements would be transmitted through a social networking site (i.e. Facebook, Twitter etc.). An example of a non-formal statement posted online would be “I’m so bored” this would be non-formal as it is not directed to an individual but to a large group of people. This is creative as it links to spoken language and an individual saying “I am bored”