The relationship between text and spoken language and text language is that they both influence each other in the way we speak and text. In this we will explore relations like omission, para linguistics and homophones etc.

When people text each other, they usually tend to use abbreviations. Abbreviations are used to shorten our words to send them quicker. We can abbreviate our text as we usually are texting in an informal setting and the other person/people will still be able to understand us. We are often able to shorten our words as no meaning is lost in what we say. This is known as omission. Examples of this can be shown in my text messages.

When people speak one to one in person they can show emotion through smiling, frowning or raising your eyebrows. This is in my opinion another form of speaking. Speaking, texting and using facial emotion. Expressing your emotion through facial expression may also be known as para linguistics.  Being able to understand para linguistics is a good thing when communicating. It shows an understanding between two or more people conversing which saves talking. Examples of this can be frowning(upset/angry), raising eyebrows(shock/confused) etc. Para linguistics can link to text language through emoticons or emojis as they are more commonly known. The smiling emoticon ‘?’ means that you are happy or excited about something. ‘?’ this emojis shows that the person sending it is angry because of the red face, downward eyebrows and frown. There are many more emojis which link to real life but would take too long to explain. Emojis are a great way of communicating as they show para linguistics that you would be able to shows face to face but not through messaging.

Omission is another way that spoken language and text language relates as we use omission in both speaking and texting. Omission is shown in text when we miss out letters in our typing that are unnecessary to write as the listener/s will still understand us. We wouldn’t purposely miss out letters if it didn’t make sense because it wouldn’t be called omission.

‘Jus stop talking shit’ in this short phrase one letter at the end of ‘jus’ is omitted because we can shorten it and still give the same meaning. That sentence means the same as ‘Just stop talking shit’.

There are also links in spoken and text language in aural elements. Aural elements are things like your accent, volume and speed of speaking. All these things can be heard and understood