Written Mode

Features of written mode

- Graphology: including typeface, layout, illustrations, capitalisation, deviant spelling and white space.
- Standard English
- Formality
- Inclusion of rhetoric
- Sophisticated lexical choices
- Planned
- Transactional
- Permanent
- Distant
- Delayed

Written mode is mainly found in speech in scripted dialogue, planned speech and broadcast talk.

Scripted dialogue is prepared so tends to be more organised, coherent and formal. There are far less non-fluency features like disjointed or incomplete constructions.

Broadcast talk is partly prepared and partly spontaneous.