1. http://www.stylist.co.uk/people/teenage-diaries
Form - Diary entry
Purpose- Reviewing the day/feelings
Audience- The writer themself.
2. http://www.nme.com/reviews/fka-twigs/16215
Form-Album review
Purpose- Reviewing/promoting a singer's album
Audience- Music lovers/Fka-twigs fans
3. http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/Talking-Heads-Comments-GCSEs-badly-timed/story-27800823-detail/story.html
Form- News report
Purpose- Discussing gcse's and the importance of them.
Audience-Bristol post readers/people interested in education
4. http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/scripts/EastEnders-5015pps.pdf
Form - Eastenders transcript
Purpose- Entertainment
Audience- Eastender's viewers.
Wednesday, 16 September 2015
Wednesday, 9 September 2015
Frameworks/Language levels
Lexis - Word choice. Meaning at word and phrase level.
Grammar - How the language is built i.e the structure and rules which underpin how we form sentences.
Phonology - How we organise the sounds of our language to produce certain effects including rhythm, rhyme, intonation, stress, pauses, etc.
Pragmatics - How we know what language means when it is used in a specific context, sometimes described as 'reading between the lines.'
Example -
Speaker: 'What time do you call this?'
2. The way the texts create identities for particular individuals, groups or institutions,
Graphology - How the design of a text can contribute to meaning including use of fonts, graphics, colours, etc.
Register - How language varies in relation to audience, purpose and context e.g. a formal letter uses a different register to one written to a friend.
Mode - How language may vary according to the channel of communication(speech, writing and mixed modes) e.g. how you should write something down as a message would be different from how you would pass it on orally.
Idiolect - The unique way one person expresses themselves due to their personality, belief systems, social experience, etc.
Sociolect - The way of expressing themselves that a social group have in common e.g. we could generalise the way teenagers speak, aristocrats speak, students speak, etc.
Dialect - The variation in word choice and grammatical structure due to where someone lives e.g. "cheers drive" is a Bristolian saying, as is the grammatical structure "where she to?"
Lexis - Word choice. Meaning at word and phrase level.
Grammar - How the language is built i.e the structure and rules which underpin how we form sentences.
Phonology - How we organise the sounds of our language to produce certain effects including rhythm, rhyme, intonation, stress, pauses, etc.
Pragmatics - How we know what language means when it is used in a specific context, sometimes described as 'reading between the lines.'
Example -
Speaker: 'What time do you call this?'
Listener interprets it as 'Why are you so late?' and knows it is not appropriate to reply with the literal time.
Discourse -1. How longer stretches of text are organised(Cohesion - how it holds together)2. The way the texts create identities for particular individuals, groups or institutions,
Graphology - How the design of a text can contribute to meaning including use of fonts, graphics, colours, etc.
Register - How language varies in relation to audience, purpose and context e.g. a formal letter uses a different register to one written to a friend.
Mode - How language may vary according to the channel of communication(speech, writing and mixed modes) e.g. how you should write something down as a message would be different from how you would pass it on orally.
Idiolect - The unique way one person expresses themselves due to their personality, belief systems, social experience, etc.
Sociolect - The way of expressing themselves that a social group have in common e.g. we could generalise the way teenagers speak, aristocrats speak, students speak, etc.
Dialect - The variation in word choice and grammatical structure due to where someone lives e.g. "cheers drive" is a Bristolian saying, as is the grammatical structure "where she to?"
Tuesday, 8 September 2015
Frameworks
Phonetics, phonology and prosodics - How speech sounds and effects are articulated and analysed(Onomatopoeia, Alliteration)
- Phonetics - is a branch of linguistics that comprises the study of the sounds of human speech.
- Phonology - is a branch of linguistics concerned with the systematic organization of sounds in languages.
- Prosodic features - features are features that appear when we put sounds together in connected speech.
Graphology - The visual aspects of textual technology design and appearance(Font, emojis, punctuation)
- Semantics - semantics is concerned with what language constructions (including words, phrases and sentences) mean.
Grammar - The structural patterns and shapes of English(Sentence,clause phrase, word level)
Discourse Extended stretches of communication occurring in different genres.
Phonetics, phonology and prosodics - How speech sounds and effects are articulated and analysed(Onomatopoeia, Alliteration)
- Phonetics - is a branch of linguistics that comprises the study of the sounds of human speech.
- Phonology - is a branch of linguistics concerned with the systematic organization of sounds in languages.
- Prosodic features - features are features that appear when we put sounds together in connected speech.
Graphology - The visual aspects of textual technology design and appearance(Font, emojis, punctuation)
- Semantics - semantics is concerned with what language constructions (including words, phrases and sentences) mean.
Discourse Extended stretches of communication occurring in different genres.
Thursday, 3 September 2015
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/from-the-mouths-of-teens-422688.html
This article is explaining the dialect between youth and where they originate from. For youth, the words used such as 'creps' or 'blud' are normal and everyday words to a youth roughly between the age of 10 - 18+. To an adult, youth are creating irrelevant and unnecessary words and 'ruining' the English language. In this article, alot of slang that youths used have been explained and it has also been explained as to why they are used. This is normally because a word has come from elsewhere, like jamaica for example. Words catch on and travel and become popular. For a London youth, slang is normal and what they have grown up with which is why it is so common.
"Adolescence is the life stage at which people most willingly take on new visible or audible symbols of group identification," he says. "
This is another reason why slang in youths is so popular. It is a way for people to fit in and seem 'cool'. Then, it becomes normal. New words originate every day and you'll find that the words become very popular very quickly.
http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/uk_news/article209405.ece
In this article, it is explaining more about the origins of slang words more than how they become so popular. Also, it discusses musical influences such as dizzee rascal and radio stations like 1Xtra. Although this article is explaining where the slang words began, it is still, like the other article, discussing the popularity of words and how slang words are used to fit in and seem similar to another person.
This article also discusses a school in south London has banned patois and slang from being spoken in the classroom. Some would argue that this isnt right as youth dont know any better than to not speak slang but some would argue that this rule is good as it gives youth a chance to use proper English and be properly spoken.
This article is explaining the dialect between youth and where they originate from. For youth, the words used such as 'creps' or 'blud' are normal and everyday words to a youth roughly between the age of 10 - 18+. To an adult, youth are creating irrelevant and unnecessary words and 'ruining' the English language. In this article, alot of slang that youths used have been explained and it has also been explained as to why they are used. This is normally because a word has come from elsewhere, like jamaica for example. Words catch on and travel and become popular. For a London youth, slang is normal and what they have grown up with which is why it is so common.
"Adolescence is the life stage at which people most willingly take on new visible or audible symbols of group identification," he says. "
This is another reason why slang in youths is so popular. It is a way for people to fit in and seem 'cool'. Then, it becomes normal. New words originate every day and you'll find that the words become very popular very quickly.
http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/uk_news/article209405.ece
In this article, it is explaining more about the origins of slang words more than how they become so popular. Also, it discusses musical influences such as dizzee rascal and radio stations like 1Xtra. Although this article is explaining where the slang words began, it is still, like the other article, discussing the popularity of words and how slang words are used to fit in and seem similar to another person.
This article also discusses a school in south London has banned patois and slang from being spoken in the classroom. Some would argue that this isnt right as youth dont know any better than to not speak slang but some would argue that this rule is good as it gives youth a chance to use proper English and be properly spoken.
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