Linguists! Lend me your thoughts! Is there (or should there be) a distinguishably different set of acceptable grammar and syntax rules for speech as opposed to writing? For example, are we able to more easily process each others verbal utterances that if transcribed would take the form of unwieldy run-on sentences or incoherent fragments, etc.? Is the problem with writing like you talk that talking has different specifiable rules, structures, latitudes, and modes of intelligibility? Are there distinguishable ways that the written word implicitly can risk violating the best dynamics for speech? I find that if Im writing to read something aloud, I have to word things very differently from when Im writing just to be read. Can you get away with some things in writing (even beautifully) that would be inadvisable in speech? Have these differences ever been formally investigated and formulated? And has anyone ever analyzed whether scripts accurately reflect talking speech as opposed to written speech or do writers fall somewhere in between when writing dialogue? Is there a script language?
Posted on: Tue, 08 Apr 2014 21:31:02 +0000
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