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Language and Communication Speech and Writing Speech: (Pandai)

Speech and writing are two forms of human communication and language. Speech involves face-to-face interaction between a speaker and listener, uses non-verbal cues, and responds dynamically. Writing is static and persistent, can be understood across distances if the language is known, allows for punctuation and formatting, but provides no immediate feedback. The main differences are that speech is transient unless recorded, while writing endures; speech facilitates real-time interaction, while writing transmits across time and space; and speech includes disfluencies while writing has more complex structure.

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Language and Communication Speech and Writing Speech: (Pandai)

Speech and writing are two forms of human communication and language. Speech involves face-to-face interaction between a speaker and listener, uses non-verbal cues, and responds dynamically. Writing is static and persistent, can be understood across distances if the language is known, allows for punctuation and formatting, but provides no immediate feedback. The main differences are that speech is transient unless recorded, while writing endures; speech facilitates real-time interaction, while writing transmits across time and space; and speech includes disfluencies while writing has more complex structure.

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LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION

Speech and Writing


Speech
1. A speaker tries to exert an influences on a listener by making him perceive,
understand, feel or do something particular.
2. Features :
(i) Speech is a dynamic changes at various levels & proceeds continuously.
(ii) The whole interaction depends on the situation.
(iii) Accompanied & supplemented by non-verbal signals.
(iv) Involving face to face interaction in a normal situation.
(v) The listener responds all the time.
Writing
1. Not perceived & interpreted at the same times and places as they are produced.
2. Features :
(i) A written text & its component parts (letters, words, sentences, etc) have the
character of objects ; they are persistent and static.
(ii) Need more skilled & erudite(pandai) writer.
(iii) Written language is mainly used in the non-private life sphere.
(iv) Not integrated with everyday knowledge & culture / separate from the world
of direct experience.
(v) Made up of discrete symbols, i.e have punctuation & paragraph division.
(vi) More constrained by rules & conventions.
(vii) Less variation i.e less dialectal.






Differences between Writing and Speech
Writing Speech
Usually permanent & cannot usually be
changed once they have written out.
Usually transient(sementara) unless
recorded.
Can communicate across time & space
as long as the particular language &
writing system is still understood.
Usually used for immediate interactions.
Tends to be more complex & intricate. Tends to be full of repetitions, incomplete
sentences, corrections & interruptions.
No immediate feedback from the
readers.
Usually is a dynamic interaction between
two or more people.
Writers can make use of punctuation,
headings, layout, colours & other
graphical effects.
Can use timing, tone, volume & timbre to
add emotional context.







Source :
Differences between Writing and Speech. Retrieved January 10, 2014, from
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/writingvspeech.htm
Speech and Writing. Retrieved January 10, 2014, from
http://langs.eserver.org/linell/chapter02.html

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