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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 7625044" data-attributes="member: 42582"><p>Agreed, but I think my post identifies some features of the Saltmarsh text that mark the contrast with conversational language. For instance, I think that conversatinal language - to the extent that, under some sort of regimentation, it has a main clause - is more likely to have the main clause correspond with the main body of information (eg <em>It's a run-down bedroom with rubbish everywhere</em> rather than <em>There's rubbish scattered everywhere, in what was once a fine bedroom</em>).</p><p></p><p>I also think that conversational language is probably more likely to use verbs in active voice - eg <em>You see a room. There are mouse droppings on the floor.</em> rather than <em>A room comes into view. There is evidence of rodent infestation.</em></p><p></p><p>And of course, when we take conversation as it occurs without that sort of regimentation, it has a spontaneous non-grammaticality that is very different from written and edited prose.</p><p></p><p>I should add - I'm not any sort of empirical linguist. I'm just going on a mix of common sense intuitions and experience working with witness transcripts.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 7625044, member: 42582"] Agreed, but I think my post identifies some features of the Saltmarsh text that mark the contrast with conversational language. For instance, I think that conversatinal language - to the extent that, under some sort of regimentation, it has a main clause - is more likely to have the main clause correspond with the main body of information (eg [I]It's a run-down bedroom with rubbish everywhere[/I] rather than [I]There's rubbish scattered everywhere, in what was once a fine bedroom[/I]). I also think that conversational language is probably more likely to use verbs in active voice - eg [I]You see a room. There are mouse droppings on the floor.[/I] rather than [i]A room comes into view. There is evidence of rodent infestation.[/I] And of course, when we take conversation as it occurs without that sort of regimentation, it has a spontaneous non-grammaticality that is very different from written and edited prose. I should add - I'm not any sort of empirical linguist. I'm just going on a mix of common sense intuitions and experience working with witness transcripts. [/QUOTE]
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