Introduction The goal of this paper is to pinpoint a small feature that make a tiny bit of my own idiolect by comparing the feature to other Linguistic study based literature. The topic I have chosen is based on fillers, which includes filler words, filler sounds, or discourse-new markers. Fillers are commonly used by speakers in conversations to notify the listener that the speaker has pause to think before speaking again. Some examples of fillers in English includes sounds like Uh or Um, or words such as Like, but, and so. I have found that my use of fillers in my idiolect is a reflection of how my young adult female speech varies when I’m interacting people with different a gender and/or age. To accomplish my thoughts into this paper I
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I spent a day recording how I would normally talk to other people causal during my daily. I was able to having conversations with three different people I would speak to regularly and was able to share a common topic with all of my speakers. I speaker A would discussion my task of picking out my Spring Classes for the next semester with varies people who differ in age and gender. The first speaker I was talking to (speaker B) was a school friend who is female and is in her early twenties. The second speaker (Speaker C) is a male family member who is in his Mid-twenties. And the last speaker (speaker D) is a female family member who in her early fifties.
Data Presentation and Analysis Here I’ve present the data I collected on my speech patterns based on three different speakers I had talk to throughout the day about a similar topic. All examples are divide between two speakers, myself and another talker, and I have bold where I have used the filler word “like” or the filler sound “um” and “uh”.
In example 1) Speaker A also known as me is talking to speaker B a female college student in her early 20s.
1) A: Ok so I have to pick my classes like …show more content…
Although speaker D is older than me, I continued to use filler words and sounds when the other speakers are female. However, this data clashes with the idea I brought in example 2) where I found planning my utterance effected my use of fillers. This example was my third time echoing the same topic with other people that day and I still used more fillers with speaker D than speaker C. My data fuels “the notion that extensive use of like, correlating as it does with low planning times, not only conveys its characteristic meaning but also can be an indicator of comfort and solidarity with the conversational partner” (Siegel 2014: 607). In some cases, such as mine, fillers appears more often when speakers are around others with the similar features such as gender. This idea matches with data that found “both men as a group and women as a group had higher um/uh ratios when talking to members of the same gender than when talking to members of the other gender” (Acton 2011:
I spent a day recording how I would normally talk to other people causal during my daily. I was able to having conversations with three different people I would speak to regularly and was able to share a common topic with all of my speakers. I speaker A would discussion my task of picking out my Spring Classes for the next semester with varies people who differ in age and gender. The first speaker I was talking to (speaker B) was a school friend who is female and is in her early twenties. The second speaker (Speaker C) is a male family member who is in his Mid-twenties. And the last speaker (speaker D) is a female family member who in her early fifties.
Data Presentation and Analysis Here I’ve present the data I collected on my speech patterns based on three different speakers I had talk to throughout the day about a similar topic. All examples are divide between two speakers, myself and another talker, and I have bold where I have used the filler word “like” or the filler sound “um” and “uh”.
In example 1) Speaker A also known as me is talking to speaker B a female college student in her early 20s.
1) A: Ok so I have to pick my classes like …show more content…
Although speaker D is older than me, I continued to use filler words and sounds when the other speakers are female. However, this data clashes with the idea I brought in example 2) where I found planning my utterance effected my use of fillers. This example was my third time echoing the same topic with other people that day and I still used more fillers with speaker D than speaker C. My data fuels “the notion that extensive use of like, correlating as it does with low planning times, not only conveys its characteristic meaning but also can be an indicator of comfort and solidarity with the conversational partner” (Siegel 2014: 607). In some cases, such as mine, fillers appears more often when speakers are around others with the similar features such as gender. This idea matches with data that found “both men as a group and women as a group had higher um/uh ratios when talking to members of the same gender than when talking to members of the other gender” (Acton 2011: