CAPE COMMUNICATION TEXTBOOK

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SAMPLE ESSAY FOR SELVON'S LONELY LONDONERS

SAMPLE ESSAY FOR MODULE TWO QUESTION
Response to Samuel Selvon’s Lonely Londoners (Excerpt pp. 76 – 77)

Word length should be approximately 500 words!!!!

In the extract from Samuel Selvon’s “The Lonely Londoners” I will be analysing the dialectal variation, the attitudes to language, communicative behaviours and registers all of which were either utilized or exhibited by the characters.
In nearly all instances a person’s choice of dialectal variation is influenced by certain factors such as first language, language that he/she is comfortable with, the audience involved and sometimes the content of the message. In the excerpt there exist two dialectal variations namely the Creole and the Standard English. Galahad, to all evidence was a West Indian and spoke the Creole throughout the excerpt as seen in these examples of his speech, “Where I living.” The Creole feature present here is the absence of the verb and in the next instance, “You like it? Where the Creole feature is the absence of the verb “Do” and instead the only indication that this was meant to be a question would be the inflection in his voice at the end. Daisy, on the other hand spoke Standard English as seen in her examples of speech, “Is this your room?” The presence of the verb at the beginning of the sentence indicates the interrogative/question type.
A person’s can exhibit either positive or negative attitudes towards the language choice of another person because of what they perceive to be the better language. Attitudes are influenced by factors such as their perception of superior as against inferior language, their perception of Creole as the language of the slaves, the uneducated, and the lower class. Subsequently, the same person may believe that Standard English when chosen is superior and better shows that the speaker is educated, in a high income range and recognises that Standard English can indicate the speaker’s goal for upward mobility. In the excerpt we see two distinct attitudes to language; Daisy’s criticism of Galahad’s language choice as seen in her, “You know it will take me some time to understand everything you say.” and Galahad’s defensive attitude as seen in his, “What wrong with it?...Is English we speaking.” Galahad’s response shows that he is quite proud of using Creole as he considers not only a language but English language!
Daisy’s quiet behaviour, Galahad apparent stalling, Daisy’s shifting about and walking hand in hand are all examples of communicative behaviours. These behaviours send messages to the other person involved and usually accompany the spoken words. In the case of Daisy’s quiet behaviour a reader can surmise that she was anxious and nervous about what was going to happen in Galahad’s room as for Galahad’s stalling we can take this as him feeling ashamed and not wanting Daisy to see the low conditions that she was living in. Normally when a person shifts about restlessly he is sending a message that she is very uncomfortable with the situation and in this case Daisy’s discomfort came across in her shifting about restlessly. Walking hand in hand is a sign of intimacy as apparent in this scenario.
The choice of register is dependent on the audience, the context or situation and the content. Registers also relate to the communicative behaviours and in this case Galahad and Daisy are very close friends, “Come and go in the yard.” ... who were on the verge of taking the relationship to the intimate level as seen in Galahad taking off his good clothes in front of Daisy and putting them away. The context here was certainly intimate.

In conclusion, it is duly noted that the writer has successfully engaged all four elements that we were required to analyse , thus rendering the passage quite appropriate for analysis.