How do the language features reflect the contextual factors of your given text? 

Text A: A transcript of a university student who is talking to her friend about starting the final year of her nursing course

The genre of this text is a transcript of a conversation, therefore the register is informal and also colloquial. I know that this text is informal because of the use of slang, for example the word 'yer' is a use of slang. As its a conversation between Kat and Sue the audience is therefore Sue and maybe also the people who are around them at this current time. The purpose and subject of this text is for Sue to talk to Kat and find out about her final year of her nursing course. This text is spoken with features of written mode (multi-model) as its a written copy of exactly whats been said.

Throughout this transcript i am able to identify many language feature. One feature that is in this transcript our paralinguistic features. An example of a paralinguistic feature within this transcript is when Kat laughs.The laughter suggests that Kat and Sue are quite good friends and are able to have a conversation with each other without being too nervous. The fact that they are friends helps the conversation to be more consistent and flow more fluently. The paralinguistic features in this text shows that the relationship between Kat and Sue is quite good and friendly although throughout the conversation the use of fillers and pauses appear quite frequently and this suggests that they are not completely comfortable with talking to each other for a long period of time and at some points they become quite nervous around each other, also they both have to think hard about their questions and answers. Another language feature which is used within this text is overlap, this happens several times throughout the transcript. This may also suggest that Kat and Sue aren't complete comfortable with each other and it can sometimes become slightly awkward throughout the conversation. Emphasis is also used in this transcript. For example in this transcript the words 'hard' and 'most' which are spoken by Kat are underlined to show emphasis. This helps to exaggerate on particular words and also on Kat' feelings.