his is a conversation between myself and Jay Atkinson. In this text there are abbreviations, and emoticons/emojis. At the start of this conversation it is casual and informal however there is some form of punctuation but there is other types missing such as full stops. Further down the conversation abbreviations start to appear like w/ which is a way to say with and kl which is an abbreviation for cool. The meaning of cool in this text is to agree or to suggest that you have understood whats happening.
There is a reply from Jay, he says “Yeah calm then”. Calm is 21 century slang for agreeing on something
In the conversation we both use the same emoji s. This is because i believe we both understand what we are talking about and the subject of the message.
An adjacency pair is a conversation that contains an exchange of one turn each by two speakers.The conversation must start with a greeting or a question/request, and in a agreement or an answer. In this message there is a clear act of adjacency pair taking place.
We make up for our actions in a conversation by sending emoji s or a photo. For example when Jay and myself where talking about the movie we where going to watch we knew it was funny and we had seen a scene from it so we both sent one of the most used emoji s which shows something was amusing or funny
What is the realationship between Spoken Language and Text Language?
When people text the language is more broken down to make things more efficient and easier. However i believe age makes a difference to how you communicate with friends and family. For instance ages between 12-25 write with lots of abbreviations, slang and emoji s. For example the screenshot above, it includes emoji s, abbreviations and slang. Ages between 30-45 use mainly abbreviations, however they wouldn’t use emojis or slang e.g How r u 2day?.
When we speak to different people of different ages we naturally speak in a different tone and manner, the language we use is unalike.
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