https://padlet.com/isfd88languageandculture4/ex6ey894ujpw Made by Leandro Lagos, Sebastián Pogonza and Vanina Roca en-us 2016-06-17 21:36:41 UTC 2023-05-13 08:36:20 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Lovecoffee.png isfd88languageandculture4 https://padlet.com/isfd88languageandculture4/ex6ey894ujpw/wish/114937552 This is a genre where speakers talk about themselves, their present or past lives, their family, their job, their likes and dislikes. ]]> 2016-06-17 21:53:29 UTC https://padlet.com/isfd88languageandculture4/ex6ey894ujpw/wish/114937552 isfd88languageandculture4 https://padlet.com/isfd88languageandculture4/ex6ey894ujpw/wish/114937656 It is the language used in the execution of a task in which the participants are directly and materially involved.
In this type of talk, quite long silences are common while the speakers are doing things. They also use a lot of discourse markers to organise their activity and a lot of words like that, there, here and it to refer to the things around them.]]> 2016-06-17 21:57:43 UTC https://padlet.com/isfd88languageandculture4/ex6ey894ujpw/wish/114937656 isfd88languageandculture4 https://padlet.com/isfd88languageandculture4/ex6ey894ujpw/wish/114937674 This genre is related to people or things around the speakers in their lives everyday, casual comments found in informal conversation. Its main features are: topics switch freely and they are often provoked by what speakers are doing, by objects in their presence, there is no a clearly defined purpose for the conversation and responses can be very short often including some evaluation and ellipsis is common. ]]> 2016-06-17 21:58:35 UTC https://padlet.com/isfd88languageandculture4/ex6ey894ujpw/wish/114937674 isfd88languageandculture4 https://padlet.com/isfd88languageandculture4/ex6ey894ujpw/wish/114937734 Here we can see how Dr. Riviera doesn't know very well what he's doing when operating on Homer. Lisa shouts at him because she notices what is going on. While the operation is being carried out, Dr. Nick relates what he's doing.
We can notice his lack of rigor when he uses the term THIS SOMETHING  instead of using the specific term to refer to the things he is manipulating. This is a clear example of vague language .

]]> 2016-06-17 22:01:36 UTC https://padlet.com/isfd88languageandculture4/ex6ey894ujpw/wish/114937734 se_pogonza13 https://padlet.com/isfd88languageandculture4/ex6ey894ujpw/wish/114945113 In this scene from the movie "Jurassic Park", we can note two examples of Language in action. The first one, John Hammond (the old man) gives instructions to Ellie Sattler (the woman) on how to recover the electricity in the park by telephone. The second example shows how the main character called Alan Grant tells the children carefully to cross out the fence and they obey.
 There are many cases of ellipsis in these examples. Also, both the boy and the woman are silent before an instruction and there are plenty use repetitions in order to check if they have understood what they have to do.

]]> 2016-06-18 05:51:39 UTC https://padlet.com/isfd88languageandculture4/ex6ey894ujpw/wish/114945113 isfd88languageandculture4 https://padlet.com/isfd88languageandculture4/ex6ey894ujpw/wish/114964381 This is an extract from the play 'Red' by John Logan. The story takes place in Rothko's studio. Ken is his apprentice. Ken analyzes Rothko's paintings and he expresses what he feels while watching them. The mentor switches the lights on. The place turns white and Ken tells what this colour reminds him of.
 When Ken is asked why white colour makes him feel frightened, he provides a dispreferred answer by saying "Doesn't matter", what makes Rothko ask again in order to get more information.]]> 2016-06-18 22:35:19 UTC https://padlet.com/isfd88languageandculture4/ex6ey894ujpw/wish/114964381 isfd88languageandculture4 https://padlet.com/isfd88languageandculture4/ex6ey894ujpw/wish/115150152
This is an excerpt from the movie "Blind Dating". He is a blind guy who goes to talk to his psychologist. He doesn't understand why all the girls have a crush on him. So he shares his problem with her, but it seems like the doctor has more problems than him. ]]> 2016-06-21 13:04:53 UTC https://padlet.com/isfd88languageandculture4/ex6ey894ujpw/wish/115150152 se_pogonza13 https://padlet.com/isfd88languageandculture4/ex6ey894ujpw/wish/115436544 The famous horror movie 'The Conjuring' is based on real life. Here it is Lorraine Warren, whose life and work as a clairvoyant has inspired the authors to film the movie. 
In this interview, Lorraine explains how long has been carrying her gift and tells us how she met her husband long years ago.
There are two clear focused topics related to her biography and two cases of adjacency pairs. The dominant speaker is the interviewer and Lorraine uses plenty of discourse markers such as the coordinate conjunction 'and'  and 'so" to relate utterances to each other.]]> 2016-06-25 22:25:05 UTC https://padlet.com/isfd88languageandculture4/ex6ey894ujpw/wish/115436544 se_pogonza13 https://padlet.com/isfd88languageandculture4/ex6ey894ujpw/wish/115436648
This is an extract from the play 'Look Back in Anger' written by John Osborne. In this scene, Jimmy and her wife Alison are talking to Cliff, a friend of the couple. Jimmy, who is a grumpy and aggressive man, talks about that depressing day, gives some comments on Cliff's trousers and gives also an opinion of an article in the newspaper. 
We can notice  how  Jimmy violates the maxims of politeness being so rude with Cliff and Alison. A clear example of that is when he damns both of them. 

]]> 2016-06-25 22:33:53 UTC https://padlet.com/isfd88languageandculture4/ex6ey894ujpw/wish/115436648 se_pogonza13 https://padlet.com/isfd88languageandculture4/ex6ey894ujpw/wish/115437033 This is a conversation between a mother who does not get on with technology and her son. The mother's cell phone doesn´t work and she decides to ask her son to help her. Unfortunately, the boy is in a bad mood, but they manage to repair the cell phone by surfing the web.
As the mother knows nothing about technology, her son uses many repetitions and there is much deictic reference such as 'that' . In addition,  since the mother is concentrated on the steps to repair her cell phone, there are silences as well.

Recorded by Vanina Roca and Leandro Lagos

]]> 2016-06-25 22:59:59 UTC https://padlet.com/isfd88languageandculture4/ex6ey894ujpw/wish/115437033 se_pogonza13 https://padlet.com/isfd88languageandculture4/ex6ey894ujpw/wish/115437193
In this conversation, there are two friends who haven't seen each other for a while and talk about their lives so far.
The use of informal language is common in this conversation. Contraction and ellipsis are examples of that.

Recorded by Leandro Lagos and Sebastián Pogonza]]> 2016-06-25 23:13:14 UTC https://padlet.com/isfd88languageandculture4/ex6ey894ujpw/wish/115437193 isfd88languageandculture4 https://padlet.com/isfd88languageandculture4/ex6ey894ujpw/wish/115437362 Here we can see how a sport journalists and four football legends give their opinions about Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. They try to make a comparison between the two football players. ]]> 2016-06-25 23:29:13 UTC https://padlet.com/isfd88languageandculture4/ex6ey894ujpw/wish/115437362