CDS techniques used for Zach 2;4

As discussed in class, Zach uses a number of non standard language in this transcipt, this is all due to his age and him still being in the telegraphic stage, as he will gets older he will move out of this. Halla uses a number of Child Directed Speech techniques to help her communicate with her son. I did two quantified two interesting aspects of the transcript, these were how many times repition was used by Halla and the second being the number of tag questions that were used.

I counted that Halla repeated Zach 9 times:

• Z: I cutting round the edge (.) so it doesn't/get sharp  H: so it doesn't get sharp?
• Z: I dont know (0.5) where's my little pad gone?  H: where is your little pad?
• Z: uh (1) here it is  H: here it is (12) what are you drawing (.) Zach?
• Z: a banana (0.5)and 3 things in the banana (0.5) H: a banana and what? (.) 3 things?
• Z: yes (.) for the banana  H: for the banana (.)
• Z: erm (.) I got food on the floor  H: yeah you threw food on the floor (1)
• Z: I think I don't  H: nah I think you don't (4) you wanted/ to do some drawing
• Z: it doesn't go frough  H: it doesn't go through? (.) why not?
• Z: and bolognay H: and bolognaise (.) yes (3)

I can only speculate on why these forms of CDS was used, but its could be argued that repetition was used as a technique to encourage Zach to speak. By repeating what he says enables him to either say "yes" or "no as confirmation, or to expand on what he was saying, this therefore allows him to develop his speech. Another reason for repetition may be because Zach may not be completely understood yet, and my repeating what he said gives him an opportunity to correct himself if that's not what he meant to say.

Employers Guide - Everyone's input is important!
                                                                                 
         
No matter what your personal thoughts are on someone, value what they're say, it may be that million pound idea.
Dwayne Jones 06/10/14

Gender, age, ethnicity, sexuality, social background, I'm sure there are variations of these all around your place of employment. Now take a moment to imagine if all these differences were erased and everyone was exactly the same.. boring isn't it?

Due to all these differences, it is inevitable that there are also going to be in your colleagues speech, this guide should explain how people think differently and also how we should value the diversity in our language.

One of the most notable differences in the workplace is obviously gender, A huge amount of research has taken place on this topic, one of the most notable being Deborah Tannen's difference theory. In this she summarised a category called Status v Support, this is where men look to build their status and help others whereas women use language to seek and offer. Although these may appear contrasting, it could be argued that these go hand in hand and could encourage unity within the workplace.

Commentary 

I initially decided to go into more detail into diverse speech in age within speech, however I decided against this as I had a considerable amount of gender theory that I could incorporate into this article, for example Deborah Tannen's difference theory, this may also be recognisable to several of my target audience due to her book 'You Just Don't Understand', I saw this as another advantage of using gender theory.

I also originally had a considerable amount of rhetorical questions in this article, however I omitted all but one. My reason for doing this was because I considered my target audience (adult in a professional job) and decided that the inclusion of so many rhetorical questions may be considered as patronising to them.