Analysis of an extracted Soap segment
             This assignment will be as a result of ¡§Language and Media: Broadcast¡ to show what I learnt from this unit. Several approaches of language analysis of broadcast media have been taught and discussed during the unit such as the Semiotic approach, Conversational analysis, Identity and social relations and so on. This paper will analyse a genre of broadcast media by use some appropriate techniques and will demonstrate an understanding of the theoretical principles of the use of language in the broadcast media at the same time. It is presented by illustration of a famous soap segment¡X Friends (from Channel 4) through analyse its script. In this analysis, I will analyse its process type, vocabulary, conversation situation and the like by using two approaches 1.Representation 2.Conversational analysis. Almost analysis of the text will be ¡§chronologically¡, as it comes. In the end, I will sum up some sort of conclusion about what I found in my analysis and how this contributes to an understanding of the text I have analysed.
             The focus of representation is upon on how events, situations, relationships, people, and so forth are represented in texts. Norman Fairelough (1995) indicated that there are two major aspects of representation in texts. In a logical terminology, the first has to do with the structuring of propositions, the second with the combination and sequencing of propositions. At below, I am going to analyse the example soap segment with the above principle from three points.
             The structuring proposition is concerned with how events and relationships and situations are represented so that we should be draw attention with the clause, a grammatically simple sentence used by a term linguists. This part will show how is clause structured in terms of the process (typically realized in its verb), participant (typically realized in its nouns and nominal groups), and circumstan...