When two or more people talk with each other and are familiar they tend to use idioms in their conversations.These are words or phrases which are omitted from a conversation due to a mutual understanding of the topic.For example in my transcript Ibby says to Joseph ‘fat head’, this is because Ibby and Joseph both know what ibby means when he says fat head.This makes the conversation more efficient as ibby did not need to say ‘You have a fat head’.
Throughout the transcript Ibby, lis and Joseph all omit words which are unnecessary as the only decrease the efficiency of the conversation.For example in line 1 ibby says ‘This prick’ instead of Lis. This shows that ibby wants to emphasize that it is lis making an unreasonable statement. He speaks to him informally as they are friends and phrases like that are mutually acceptable.
September 24, 2015 at 8:00 am
Hi Eltom,
The way you express yourself in this analysis is good and confident – you express yourself using a strong reasoning pattern. Unfortunately you’ve made a factual error though – leaving words out of speech would be called ‘omission’. Idiom is a term used to describe modifications to language that occur in smaller sub-groups of the population.
In essence you’ve used the right term to describe the features you use in your example, but you define it incorrectly. I would think of ‘idiom’ as a broader term that encompasses a range of more specific features in order to create a specialised, modified language form.
Can you fix this?
CW