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Chapter 8 – Speaking and Spokenness


1. Communicating in Person

Listen to these audio extracts from longer stretches of speech. The first piece is a monologue of a woman talking about applying for a job as a train station guard and the second is a conversation between friends talking about language, performance and music. What grammatical and organisational features of spokenness can you identify in each and what differences can you notice between the monologue and the conversation?

Extract 1

Extract 2


2. Communicating on WhatsApp

Look at this WhatsApp conversation between 2 people about a plan to build a waste disposal incinerator. Where would you position this on the spokenness-writtenness continuum?