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Face to face convocations work better in the media especially in a tv chat shows as paralinguistic’s can mould the convocation and this can help as chat shows are made to entertain and be informal. Although this isn’t that easy as chat shows need to be kept light hearted to entertain an audience and for fill pragmatic intentions of two people with two different intentions.

As lady gaga enters the chat show she sits facing audience to make them feel engaged ‘’LG:thankyou [turns to audience]. Her paralinguistic’s could come across as friendly where as it could also be rude as it alienates Ross which contradicts her pragmatic intentions of gaining attention from a new interview and gaining new fans. Overall this technique is effective towards her own fans but not towards a new audience.

Ross uses a euphemism to call lady gaga and oddity. ‘’seen as an oddity (2)’’. Ross uses this euphemism to dress up the phase because he doesn’t know how she will react which is shown by the pause afterwards. This technique however for fills her pragmatic intentions as this is the image she wants to portray to people to gain a bigger audience.

Ross and gaga constantly overlap each other. ‘’ LG: I guess so |yeah|JR: |OK |’’ This could be because lady gaga is nervous or this could be away for gaga to seize the floor so she can entertain the audience which for fills her pragmatic intentions and the pragmatic intentions of a chat show host. However she achieves this by alienating Ross which to Ross fans could come across as rude which stops her gaining attention. This technique is only effective if the majority of the audience is gaga fans.

Ross for fills his pragmatic intentions by starting all the convocations. ‘’we got you a new teacup to replace the old one...stolen by me’’ He uses this exphoric reference to make the audience laugh and get rid of any bad feelings. He wants to get rid of any bad feelings so he can build a rapport easier to make the...