The Conventions of a Dramatic Monologue

Before even going into aspects of what makes a good dramatic monologue (or persona monologue), we must first understand what really is a monologue.
  A monologue  is simply a speech made by one person, which can be sometimes be spoken from a piece of text that has been written by someone else previously. The word monologue comes from mono, meaning one and log, meaning spoken or keeping a record of something spoken.
  When answering the actual question of what a dramatic monologue is, however, the difference is small but significant. This is because dramatic monologue  can consist of conferences, books, speeches and poems that are in a first person view and are shorter then monologues that can be an entire part of a play/performance. All of these types of dramatic monologue consist of different techniques to a produce a certain quality, which could influence the depth of the subtext within the,.
  Subtext is the under meaning of what something could mean and why it has been picked. An example of this is someone wearing red. By wearing this colour it could suggest thoughts of sexuality, love or even danger due to how stereotypes of this colour has been created.
   By looking at subtext, then, not only does it reveal emotions but when used in a deeper understanding, it can help you consider other aspects of the monologue, such as what gender wrote it, how old they were, what type of bringing up or education they had/have and even culture and religion.
  When examining dramatic monologues, it can be said that they are forms of what some may call 'silent dialogue', meaning that when reading them, they can be precieved as more 'conversational' then a usual monologue allows.
  Techniques used in a dramatic monologue  can be obvious, such as a lack of punctuation used to represent a child speaking or a lack of vocabulary. This isn't always the case, however. The reason being because the obvious isn't always what is the reality. A lack of punctuation could emphasis a grown adults lack of education due to their upbringing, being deprived of education due to family difficulty. A lack of vocabulary could even be someone who is foreign from the language, still trying to adjust to the language.
This is only a fraction of the many different techniques that can be used in a dramatic monologue.
  By thinking outside of the box or even going deeper into the abyss of what you think, you find that famous dramatic monologues from William Shakespeare or Robert Browning are famous for a reason that you haven't realised yet, it's just waiting to be discovered..


 Terrence Telfer

Transcript

Mum: T?
Me: Yeah?
Mum: What you doing? Go to bed.
Me: I'm doing my work.
Mum: It's quarter to 1
Me: I Know
(2) Mum: Don't say nothing when you wake up for school tomorrow
(5) To myself: You know what I'm tired]
((2 Minutes later))
Brother: You need to go bed yknow?
Me: I know, I Know

NOTE: all definitions are based on personal knowledge and may not be 100% adequate to everyone's opinion. Enjoy.

Phatic Language/ Expression
 - a kind of speech act
 - an indication that can consist of commenting in way that doesn't actually express what is being said but something else.
Example - 'what's good?' Really means 'how are things?' Or 'what you been doing?'.

Pragmatic
 - implied
 - cant be taken seriously

Cultural Assumptions
 - how something is may be understood by another country but may not be understood from a different culture or background.

Locution
 - something spoken that is a referred to as the literal meaning.

Illocution
 - the implied spoken term that is given from the locution (literal term).

Perlocution
 - the final perceived meaning that the subject takes from the locution (literal term).

Phatic Language
 - the concept of speaking in a less formal, sociable manner.

Formality
  - the way in which someone speaks, depending on their behaviour and tone.

Deixis (Greek for 'point')
 - words that refer/ point something out.

Context Independent
 - you don't need context due to the text being written in a way that establishes why and whom it's been written for.

Context Dependent
 - you need context to understand the written text.

Pronoun
 - a word that can substitute a noun to expand the grammar within the sentence/ phrase giving a certain degree of depth within the said sentence/ phrase.

Communication at its worst

This blog, done by producer Timbanland, is directed at people who was given then job to find interns for his studio. Timbaland thanks them by establishing that they 'did a good job'. Whilst doing this, he always states to another collegue that he needs more staff. This tweet, then, is directed at the hiring of employers. However, the concept of pressionalism is not necessarily injected due to the slang used 'y'all and 4, being examples of shortening down words.

Timbanlamd also creates another tweet giving the effect of being somewhat full of himself by stating the fact that he makes money when doing nothing.

BBC

The media uses aspects of communication such as radio usage, images, written text and so on. 

By using these different aspects of language, we as an audience, have the opportunity to see a variety of language, depending in out circumstances, whether if we'e blind, we can listen from the radio or if we are deaf, e can see by written text and images from the media. By doing this, the media gets to us in any means possible. 

The media is always making quick ways to catch their audience attention. Images do this as well as big text titles that don't always mean what the story is.

Electronic Mode of Communication

Modern, electrical modes used for communication are numerous. Some of them are listed below:
-Email
-Fax
-Radio
-Telephone/Mobile Phone
-Text Messaging
-Internet Social Networking:
Twitter
Msn
Facebook
Myspace
Bulletin Boards

George Orwell's politics and the english language seems to be a realisation of how the whole concept of the english language is and has become ”ready-made phrases”, due to them being 'preset' into our own vocabulary. George Orwell seems to stamped down onto the fact that language has become somewhat slubby, lazy and has decreased its lack of thought from writers creating metaphors that are practically useless, to professors not making sense of what they write.

Furthermore, his views on politics, being firmly identified as 'a mass of lies and can influence the world of language depending on the political background of the said country. While continuing to fall deeper into his thoughts on how language has become, it seems that he himself falls into open-ended questions and phrases that seem to be something Yoda from Star Wars would say, "if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought". This abstract has no language flaws similar to how Yoda would speak but seems to unravel itself into a multitude of things not to do and things that even supposed, 'english professionals' still do that they shouldn't.

While Orwell's viewpoint on how language has taken a wrong turn is valid, he does seem to portray the thought of being more grumpy then worried. However, this though is damped by the aspects of humour written.

George Orwell sees "language as an instrument for expressing" and having expressed himself, has not only left questions answered but has also created many more for other Orwell-like observers to consider in thought on what they do, how they do anything and how it all ties up to the world of language.

"One cannot change this all in a moment, but one can at least change one's own habits" - George Orwell