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Activity 22
a) 9
b) 5
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Activity 23
payment ... with the payments we need you to give
should be paid ... should be paid straight to us
payment ... payment to us
being sent ... being sent to us
cannot be done ... with us cannot be done
is not received ... is not received to us
will not be ordered ... will not be ordered from us
cooperation ... cooperation with us
will be much appreciated ... will be much appreciated to us
Activity 24
I can tell these participants have a friend type relationship due to the language, and the taboo words, that wont be seen as expectable language to other readers. Also the 'x' at the end of some sentences suggest their friend or partner type of relationship. B seemed to be more dominant than A, so this can suggest the higher in status between the two, as it seemed that A put in more of an effort to keep the conversation friendly, this is why I think A is a girl due the 'x' and friendliness.
Their was a lexical wording or words like 'bastard' , 'nicked', this is seen as a cockney London spoken language, this could suggest the background of the characters. Their was no capital letters at names, or even full stops, this explains the relaxation between the two and how informal it is.
Theory B ad it gave background information on some key terms used in the text
Tuesday, 22 October 2013
Thursday, 17 October 2013
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1. Extract from The Guardian
a) From a first look at this poster I think the function is a pursuation to buy these heels, but by seeing it's written by the Guardian I can imagine from past experiences that the if is a underline meaning.
b) When I read the text, this poster portrays a informative function. I know this as the basic message of the poster is that we take things for grantige, as we can buy stilettos shoes from Selfridges for £129, but females in Liberia have this as a bribery to go to war.
c) I think this poster was effective as it compared a little problem of paying for shoes, to a serious problem happening in Liberia. It achieved its purpose by the colour co-ordination, the light colour of the 'Selfridges' and 'Liberia' context shows the two contexts, and the seriousness of the difference, and how we take advantage of what we have.
2.
The sentence structure implies on when the Guardian wants the reader to stop, think and start again
c) I think this poster was effective as it compared a little problem of paying for shoes, to a serious problem happening in Liberia. It achieved its purpose by the colour co-ordination, the light colour of the 'Selfridges' and 'Liberia' context shows the two contexts, and the seriousness of the difference, and how we take advantage of what we have.
2.
The sentence structure implies on when the Guardian wants the reader to stop, think and start again
Tuesday, 1 October 2013
Analysis of my transcript
The mode of this piece was a transcript, with a field based upon 'X-Factor', and a function to show the effectiveness of X-Factor and how language changes when around family or friends. This was a informal and phatic transcript, as it has abbreviated words like 'isn't' and 'enet' this shows the people in this transcript feel comfortable with each other to shorten words, that the other people in the conversation will still understand. This transcript is also context dependent as you would have to know about the topic 'X-Factor' to understand what it is and how it effects people's Saturday nights. Their is also graphology in this transcript, when 'Mum' says 'Wow...' , this shows the audience the that their was pause because mum was so indulged in the t-v. Also the ellipses portrays how the program effected mum that she was left speechless.
When Grandma asks 'does anyone want their dinner?', the locution is 'no', while the illocution is not now, while the perlocution is that they are busy watching t-v, and cant come to eat now. When mu states that its dark outside, and everyone replies with 'hmm', this is the pragmatic as this is important to inform the audience that no-one was really bothered in what mum was saying, as people were concentrating on the t-v, this was also colloquial as everyone was speaking together. But by mum saying its getting dark 'quickly' this is the modal expression as this indicates the exaggeration from mum to the audience. Their were also fillers in this transcript, by the 'little outbursts of laughter' this shows how intrigued everyone was with the t-v that their was some sense of awkward silence, even the pause between the question for dinner and response, this also showed how everyone was intrigued. Their was also a cultural assumption by 'cousin', by saying she should go on x-factor, this was a joke that only here family or friends could understand, because she is not good at signing.
The mode of this piece was a transcript, with a field based upon 'X-Factor', and a function to show the effectiveness of X-Factor and how language changes when around family or friends. This was a informal and phatic transcript, as it has abbreviated words like 'isn't' and 'enet' this shows the people in this transcript feel comfortable with each other to shorten words, that the other people in the conversation will still understand. This transcript is also context dependent as you would have to know about the topic 'X-Factor' to understand what it is and how it effects people's Saturday nights. Their is also graphology in this transcript, when 'Mum' says 'Wow...' , this shows the audience the that their was pause because mum was so indulged in the t-v. Also the ellipses portrays how the program effected mum that she was left speechless.
When Grandma asks 'does anyone want their dinner?', the locution is 'no', while the illocution is not now, while the perlocution is that they are busy watching t-v, and cant come to eat now. When mu states that its dark outside, and everyone replies with 'hmm', this is the pragmatic as this is important to inform the audience that no-one was really bothered in what mum was saying, as people were concentrating on the t-v, this was also colloquial as everyone was speaking together. But by mum saying its getting dark 'quickly' this is the modal expression as this indicates the exaggeration from mum to the audience. Their were also fillers in this transcript, by the 'little outbursts of laughter' this shows how intrigued everyone was with the t-v that their was some sense of awkward silence, even the pause between the question for dinner and response, this also showed how everyone was intrigued. Their was also a cultural assumption by 'cousin', by saying she should go on x-factor, this was a joke that only here family or friends could understand, because she is not good at signing.
Analysis of Example C: from a Chartroom of the week, Tim Dowling, The Guardian, Thursday 2nd January 2003
Example C, was very context dependent, meaning you have to know the background information on the topic before you can understand what some of the people are saying. For example a person called 'jenni@boughtledger' constantly kept stating 'I'm still Jenni from the block'. This was released in September 26, 2002, meaning you had to of known or heard this song to understand what this character was saying. This chartroom was also very informal, I knew this because the people were using abbreviated words like 'cos' and 'gonna', this could suggest that the people knew each other as they felt comfortable to use abbreviation to shorten words they were trying to say. I also think the people knew each other because they felt very comfortable to talk about serious topics like 'Saddam Hussein' and 'Micheal Jackson throwin his baby out the window'.This chat also had ellipses like 'any new years resolutions Bronco', this was a conversation starter
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