How does talk in soap operas try to represent actual speech?

Answer 1

Soap's --> Scripted speech

-->planned and written by the actor who speaks it.

-->carefully constructed to develop a character or to contribute to a narrative.

-->All paralinguistic - (volume, intonation, pace and rhythm, pauses laughter

coughing. etc. is planned and decided by the writer?director/actor.

-->body language might look natural but again, contributes to character

presentation and story.

-->Language is more likely to be a sociolect, to create a generic impression of 'the

way young people speak', or 'the way Londoners speak'..

Natural Speech :

--> spoken spontaneously by person engaged in conversation.

-->A response to an immediate, real life situation.

-->Paralinguistic features unplanned and spontaneous.

--> Body language represents an immediate response to the situation.

--> Language reflects person's idiolect, their individual speech.