SPEAKING VERSUS

WRITING
SPEECH
• The worst part about it was I had a friend
sitting up here and she’s saying “ha ha”…
And I was saying”Go get the police…go Get
someone”… I later learned that there some
people who do that in the face of disaster…I
mean they just start cracking up as opposed
to crying.
WRITING
DIFFERENCES

 SPEECH writing
 Universal, everybody ◌ Not everyone learns to
acquires it read and write

Spoken language has dialect ◌ Written language is more

variations that represent a
region
restricted and generally
follows a standardized
form of grammar
structure, organization
and vocabulary.

 Speakers use pauses and ◌ Writers use punctuation

intonation
 SPEECH Writing
 Speakers use pauses and ◌ Writers use punctuation
intonation

Speakers pronounce ◌ Writers spell

 Speaking is often ◌ Most writing is planned

spontaneous and unplanned and can be changed
through editing and
revision before an audience
reads it.
 SPEECH Writing

 Speakers have immediate ◌ Writers have a delayed

audiences who nod, response from audiences or
interrupt, question and none at all and have only
comment one opportunity to convey
their message, be
interesting, informative,
accurate and hold their
reader’s attention
 SPEECH Writing
 Speech is usually informal ◌ Writing on the other hand
and repetitive is more formal and
compact. It progresses
more logically with fewer
explanations and
digressions.

 Speakers use simpler ◌ Writers use more complex

sentences connected by lots sentences with connecting
of ands and buts words like however, who,
although, and in addition.
 SPEECH Writing

 Speakers draw on their ◌ Writers are often solitary

listeners reactions to know in their process
how or whether to continue

 Speakers can gauge the ◌Writers must consider what

attitudes, beliefs, and and how much their
feelings of their audience by audience needs to know
their verbal and nonverbal about a given topic
reactions
 Discourse is
embedded in texts
and that texts make
up discourse
• To study discourse, you study who is
communicating with whom through
what medium and for what social
purpose.
 TEXT

Physical Product /Overall

Structure

To grasp the meaning

 DISCOURSE

PROCESS (who is communicating to whom and in

what medium or social purpose)

Meaning is derived through interaction with text

What is the significance of
written text to its relation to
discourse?
Analyze the statement below: