Transcript Analysis

the transcript that I analysed was on the TV show the apprentice. the transcript consists of Lord Alan sugar and one of the aspiring apprentices - Clare. it is clear that when reading this transcript  there is an unequal encounter between the pair. For example, Clare says "Sir Alan may I say one more thing please." the uses of the words "may" and "please" show that she needs to ask permission for Sugar to speak again and this clearly shows that he has some sort of authority over her. This links to power theory and how power is used in all different elements of language

if you were to use this data in an investigation you could possibly try and compare it with other transcripts from the apprentice and analyse how different candidates react and approach sugar in different ways. you could add up all different elements of their speech and perhaps see how sugar approaches different candidates whether it be gender or any other factors.

Investigating Language on Twitter

Introduction

we set out a hypothesis that men are more dominant as they are more straight to the point whereas women tend to waffle which links to the deficit which is a power theory. we planned on using one man and one women who were both in the public eye, these were Ed Milliband- an MP and former leader of the labour party, and Amy Childs - a reality TV star

Methodology

our methodology was two pick every third tweet from each of these people. We chose to do it this way to prove that there are no anomalies. we then proceeded to count the number of each various feature of each tweet to try and prove our hypothesis.

Analysis

The results are as follows:

• Emoji's men used 0 and women used 12
• Emotive language men used 13 and women used 7
• Men's sentence lengths ranged for men at 16-27 with an average of 20.1. Women on the other hand had a range of 3-17 with an overall average of 9.2
• Amount of hashtags used by men is 1 and women was 10

we have ultimately found out that our findings do not support our hypothesis. this could primarily be because of the choice of the people in which we chose to analyse . Ed Milliband is a politician and Amy Childs is a reality TV star. This shows that these two are from very different backgrounds and therefore it is unlikely that they can be compared in this way and be a general stereo-type   of each of their gender groups.

Conclusion

Reflecting on this study I think its clear that we may have chosen the wrong subjects for this investigation. If this this investigation were to be done again we could choose people from different similar backgrounds because if we did this the two people would be easier to compare and hopefully give us more conclusive evidence for our hypothesis.