Kardashian-West Baby 2

The following articles are about Kim Kardashian sharing with her sister, Khloe Kardashian, that she is pregnant on their new season of their hit TV reality show Keeping Up With The Kardashians.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/kim-kardashian-reveals-shes-pregnant-6485705

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3242827/This-like-miracle-Kim-Kardashian-tells-sister-Khloe-s-pregnant-second-child-season-premiere-KUWTK.html

Both the Daily Mail and the Mirror used the same qoutes when re-telling the event, "I just got the blood tests back from my doctor and I am pregnant." "is this a joke". The use of the second qoute imparticular portrays the excitement of the sisters that Kim is pregnant again with Kanye and her second baby. It shows that, from where she is so excited and happy, she simply cannot believe what her older sister is telling her and is overwhelmed at the exciting news.

When descibing Kim's expression, the Mirror used the term 'stunned'. Although they meant this in the literal way in the fact that she was shocked at what she was being presented with, it also works as the Kardashian family is so known for their stunning appearences so the use of the word works in with the family theme. It also reinforces the fact that the article is about Kim who is prodominately known for her appearnece.
 
 Both of the newspapers use adjectives when intorducing the qoutes of the people being spoke about,'an emotional Kim said', 'Khloe joyfully laughed'. The use of these adjectives help to get across the current emotion of the person behind the qoute. Without the adjectives, these particular qoutes would be extremely hard to read emotion through, however with the help of these words, it helps to get the reader deeper into the story and to understand the emotions invloved behind it.

A difference in the language used is how they describe the event. The Mirror describes the event as 'emotional' whilst the Daily Mail describes is as 'exciting'. The two words give completely different outlooks on the way the story is percieved. The use of the word 'exciting' gives the impression that a big event has happened in one of their lives that is going to be a positive, 'exciting' occurence. The use of the word 'emotional' gives the does not give a lot away as far as the reader is concerned. 'Emotional' could be used when discussing both a positive or negative event in their lives. In this case, the word emotional is due to the rush of emotions going through the family due to a new arrival on the way and is focusing on positive emotions rather than negative ones. The emotions the article was most likely refering to here would be joy and overwhelminly happiness.

Slang or common talk

 

Slang Or common talk

Yay all knows that peoples talk funny

If yous are from the south.

They cut off the lights and jaw jack alls night long.

If youns need to find something.

We cans find it down the road a piece or maybe over yawner.

So if you think I talk funny or in slang.

You alls need to catch the seconds of taters and grits and pig fat.

You alls come back now you hear.

·         Conventions of poems- ·         Standard stanzas ·         Rhyming patterns ·         Rhythm patterns ·         Metaphors ·         Personification ·         Imagery ·         Narrative (telling a story)

    And yes bring granny and the boys well have a shing dig.THERE are no handles upon a language

 

Poems

Poem planning

·         Metaphor

·         Personification

 

 

Slang words and phrases

Effects on language

Ain’t

Like

 

Future of Slang

The generations of today are going through Ludacris phases

That are killing all of our well known phrases

The pengs and the peak

Fresh from the ends of the streets

Seem to be coming day by day

And looking to stay

 

Words commencing on Facebook

Making parents look like crooks

Not knowing what they’re saying

Start to question if they’re just playing

Are they even making any sense?

Or have they just ran into a fence

 

Words like bae

They’re sure to slay our English language

They don’t even know what we say

Even abbreviations like ‘K’

The future of slang looks bright

Let’s just hope we all use it right

 

How language is changing

How language is used

Today’s language is rapidly changing due to the way it is being used by younger generations. Social media is one of the main reasons why Standard English language is rapidly changing. Abbreviations of words are being used as a part of day to day language. Words such as ‘sick’ and ‘bae’ are commonly used throughout the teenage language. The use of ‘sick’ in today’s language means the opposite of the literal use of the word, it is now used as a positive adjective rather than the opposite literal meaning the word is actually supposed to be. ‘Bae’ is a shorted way of the phrase ‘before anyone else’. Nearly all teenagers would recognise these words, however, when parents and older generations were asked about the words, majority of them were clueless about the slang words and some had never even heard of them before being asked about them. This demonstrates the complete difference in language between younger generations and older generations due to social media as the older generations would not have used social media when growing up and therefore did not use this type of language. The word ‘fleek’ is the most unknown words within parents with a huge 43% of parents claiming to not know the word or its meaning.

Emojis are also becoming the next phase of language change. Teenagers are not even using letters now to communicate but simply an emoji to get their message and feelings across. Some send texts and messages that only include emojis. There are now even full keyboards full of emojis and apples IOS are constantly adding new emojis with each update which is cutting down the use of language again. Some emojis have been put together to form sentences. They are recognised by younger generations. A frog emoji and a cup of tea emoji represent the sentence ‘but that’s none of my business’. This is a completely alienated concept for adults and parents. The emojis do not actually represent the sentence but it is widely recognised by teenagers everywhere. Language is not even used here to get a message across which demonstrates the power and use of emoticons.

One prime of social media that is causing shortening of words and abbreviations is Twitter. This particular social media site only allows 140 characters per tweet. This almost forces users of Twitter to abbreviate words and shorted words down to be able to fit their message in. Also the use of emojis gets their emotion towards the message across easily without having to explain it. Parents were unable to understand the acronym ‘TBT’. This is an increasingly popular trend in Instagram which refers to uploading old pictures on Instagram on Thursdays, thus it standing for ‘throw back Thursday’. This is used by thousands of teenagers so the fact that adults have never even heard of the term shows how much language is changing from generation to generation.

As there are a lot of foreign speakers in the UK, there language has developed as a part of slang. Jamaican slang is widely used throughout cities in England as normal day to day language which has become a part of mainstream language for teenagers. 

Self Evaluation-
I could have explored my points more and added more facts and evidence to back them up like quotes. I think I added some good points to my article.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-10971949
http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2014/06/social-media-changing-language/

Slogan Patters

Slogan patters

One of the patterns I noticed when looking at spoken slogans was that there was a lot of use of synthetic personalisation. This is when advertisers assume knowledge about the targeted audience. This is a popular technique for advertising slogans as it makes the target audience feel as though the product is being designed specifically for them and if the consumer does not feel this way then the product most likely is not targeted at them. For example, the L’Oréal advert slogan is ‘because you’re worth it’, this makes the consumer of the product feel special and targeted for being ‘worth it’. If someone was to take an oppositional reading from this and say that the company doesn’t know that they are ‘worth it’ the product is not targeted for them.

Another trend I found was that a lot of the spoken slogans were for food products. For example the Burger King slogan is ‘Have it your way’. This is especially effective to the consumer as is makes the customer think that the company is catering especially for them. This is why the use of spoken slogans is used so much for food brands as it makes customers think that they will enjoy the food as they are sort of being recommended by the company who are assuming they will enjoy it (synthetic personalisation).

Diverisy in spoken language

http://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/article/?id=10520
last accessed 15/09/15
Around 40% of Manchester’s kids and up to 50% of Manchesrer's adult population are likely to be multilingual(using mutiple languages) according to research. Also 3000 pupils at Manchester schools took their GCSE exams in foreign languages in 2012. Mancheser values diversity in spoken language as they have started a project called Multilingual Manchester which celebrates the use of mulitple language being used in our spoken language. This article is useful if you are interested in the different languages spoke in certain places.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8311000/8311069.stm
last accessed 15/09/15
Around seven thousand languages are said to be being spoken around the world. Researchers have predicted that by the year 2100, 90% of the worlds lanuage will no longer exist. "Most people are not at all interested in the death of languages,"  "If we are not cautious about the way English is progressing it may eventually kill most other languages." This article talks about how so many countries are learning, speaking and listening English over their own country's laguage, for example some Vietnamese people are listening only to English music. It also says about how the English media has blown up so much influencing people from all countires to learn and speak the English language. They also say that in years to come English or Mandarian will dominate South East Asian. This article is useful if you are interested in the fading out of languages around the world. It explains how languages are becoming extinct around the world due to more dominantly spoken languages taking over.

English Language Patterns

The patterns I noticed about English language was that the majority of curse words/ taboo words were disliked. Also, the food related words were not disliked because of the actual food that they represent but the sound of the actual word or other things that the word reminded the person of, for example the word 'gravy' was disliked as it reminded someone of the word 'graves'. To investigate this, a list of food words which sound similar to other disliked words could be written and asked whether or not people like the words.