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Component 1: The Anthology
Quick questions on Spoken genres and features - Edexcel A-Level English Language and Literature
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What are the spoken genres?Show answer
The anthology and unseen texts span several spoken genres, each with conventions worth knowing. An interview is structured by question and answer, with an asymmetry of roles (the interviewer manages the agenda) that the interviewee may accept or resist. A broadcast (a news report, a documentary segment) is often scripted, so it is spoken but planned, blending the fluency of writing with the rhetoric of speech. A podcast can be scripted, semi-scripted or conversational, often constructing an intimate, companionable voice.
What is reading the transcript?Show answer
The transcript is the spoken text's equivalent of the printed page, and its conventions are the evidence for prosodic analysis. A speaker who stresses a key word foregrounds it; long pauses before answers signal hesitation or calculation; latching and overlap signal eagerness or dominance; elongated fillers signal planning under pressure. Analysing these features is what separates a genuine spoken-text analysis from one that reads the transcript as silent prose.
What is q1?Show answer
Name three non-fluency features of spontaneous speech. [3 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
How does turn-taking reveal power in a conversation? [2 marks]
What is q3?Show answer
Why must a transcript be analysed as recorded speech rather than as writing? [2 marks]
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