Text A Analysis

Text A
'This is a transcript of four boys playing on a computer game. Andrew is playing, the others are watching.'

From text A I can see that Ben is the bossiest out of the four boys present, we can see this because he likes to use imperative verbs phrases such as 'no shoot through that' and 'throw your light sabre'.
Andrew is quite clearly concetrating on the game as he seems to pause a lot more than the other boys when talking 'I can kill myself (.) observe (.) now (.) way number one'. Andrew also knows what he's doing as he says 'no this is what i do every time' when rejecting Ben's instructions on how to play the game.
We don't really hear much of David and Carl. David seems to observe the game a lot more than Ben and doesn't really have many suggestions. However, through David's sentence, we can see that the boys aren't really thinking much about what they are saying as he has repetiton and a pause all in one sentence. ' the machine gun (.) the machine gun'.
Carl seems to feel comfortable around his friends as he jokingly insults Andrew by calling him a 'fatty' whilst laughing with David.

This text helps indicate how the spoken word differs depending on the person and the company, and it also demontrates that spoken language is unrehearesed whereas written isn't, this is then backed up with the amount of pauses that are written in this text.

I FOUND IT!

I chose English Language for a few reasons, one being that English has always been one of my stronger subjects throughout my school life. It's also reassuring that 40% of this course is coursework, because I'm prone to freaking out in an exam. English Language also fitted in nicely with my other subjects (Psychology and Law), so I'm hoping that I'll have grammar-perfect essays all round!