Talking In English: Everyday Communication

Talking in English: Everyday Communication

Interacting and communicating with people is ultimately the most frequent part of our daily lives. There are many different characteristics that people use constantly throughout their lives without knowing it. These characteristics include addressing people which depends on the formality of the situation this includes status, social class, gender, ethnicity, and age. Agenda is also another characteristic that we use in communication it refers to the topic of the conversation. I find it really interesting because consciously or unconsciously we tend to initiate the topic and our percipient has to perceive and follow it. Another distinctive point when it comes to speaking in English is adjacent pairing;

This is quite fascinating due to the fact that when we give an order or a request we expect compliance from the other party or when asking a question we expect an immediate response. There are three fundamental points to conversing in English which are the structures and function of talk, the examples of language practices and the social rules of talking. When talking about structures and functions in English there are two important terminologies to consider they are formal and informal communication and there structures. Formal communication is a type of verbal communication that is used when we do not a person well enough or when we are at an institutional place, which requires us to follow a set of rules when speaking. Formal speech is also referred to the official communication; the structures to formal speech are as followed. Firstly when using formal speech we tend to follow a hierarchy when communicating to our bosses, higher up officials and other people who have a certain title. This includes terms of address people by using professional terms (Doctor, Boss, Teacher Etc…) or honorific terms (Sir, Madame, Mr., Ms. Etc…)

This usually has to do with conversational styles which involve storytelling and the difference between the genders. When it comes down to storytelling speakers tell stories cooperatively. They utilize other individual’s words, or present their judgments of circumstances they are depicting. They main points of storytelling are abstract which mean it is a brief sneak peak of what the account is talking about, then we have the introduction which includes where and when the story took place and who are involved, after that we have the complicated action which is where an uncommon or surprising activity. Occasions are told in the request in which they happened afterwards we have the coda which is the end of the story, which takes back the main focus to the present time and final the assessment is the purpose of the story; why the story is essential. While alternate components commonly happen in the request above, assessment can show up anytime inside the story. A particular point to the gender difference comes for the book “The Myth of Mars and Venus” by Deborah Cameron. She says that “what I am calling "the Myth of Mars and Venus" is simply the proposition that men and women differ fundamentally in the way they use language to communicate.” Meaning that there a set of guidelines that make men different from women there are five points that are mention, the first on is that language and communication matter