PAPER 1 - IMPORTANT
Applicable to discourses too (with additional “discourse of decay” references.)
Audience positioning – text producer and audience
Word classes – material verbs e.g swarm, abstract nouns – unpleasantness, pre-modifying
adjectives e.g annoying (depends on context)
Pronouns show a lot about audience positioning – first person singular - I me my – shows info
about personal experiences. 1st person plural - We our us- about inclusion collective voice, text
receiver thinks like text producer you or, second person pronouns – plural or singular.
Assumption text receiver thinks and feels the same way as the text producer.
Epistemic modal auxiliary verbs – may– shows the possibility and ability to do something but with
less force.
Contrasts in levels of formality– humour arising from juxtaposition (paradox (oxymoron – big and
small)).
Deontic modal auxiliary verbs –shouldn't- shows power
Passive voice - depersonalises language.
Idiomatic expressions – humorous - Links in with formality and even non-standard forms
Figurative phrases – imagery, metaphors, simile, personification etc.
Guide the reader – clear topic sentences.
1. Use the word represents or representation.
2. Use linguistic terminology in nearly every sentence.
3. Focus on pragmatics
When reading through texts think about...
1. What or who is being represented.
2. How is language being used to represent what or who. Link it in to the who or what.
3. Why has language been used – for what meanings and representations alongside
contextual factors.
2.1 cover a range of different language levels
2.2 use a range of ao1 terms throughout
2.3 dive straight into the opening language and representation points
2.4 identify patterns rather than just stating the linguistic terminology
,Characteristics within this article.
Interactional characteristics
Pejorative opinion on food trends
Superlative – most
Positions reader to be irritated. Think and feel in a dominant way accept the irritation of the
writer
Trend – short lived connotations
Pride in regional identity - first person plural pronoun we copular verb are proper noun London.
Hypernyms – broad terms
Common items then artisans – juxtaposition of register – throughout text
Interrogative function – mimic language used in restaurants - pejorative view (below)
Anything you can lay your hands on (you can lay your hands on - monosyllabic words – one
syllable) can be made into a cocktail – idiomatic expression. Then followed up by radish, thistle
nectarini etc. Specific
Conversational features – coordinating conjunction - and
, “Posh version of junk food” contrasting - adjective posh antonym junk.
Constant idiomatic expressions – "doing the rounds”
Humoristic
Paleo diet followed by cave men
Who lived until the grand old age of setting expectation of 90 or 100, but undercuts, giving you as
small number 30
Copular verbs to give a certain sense.
We are London.
But it’s also a smart money-making move
- Strong sense of certainty.
Examples.
Use the word represent!
Linguistic terminology
Text A consistently uses premodifying adjectives and adverbs to represent food trends
pejoratively. The emphatic verb of degree “massively” in the phrase “massively overpriced”,
alongside the hyperbolic noun phrase “endless queues” and critical adjectival phrase “overly
complicated, combine to represent the dining experience as more effort than they are worth
according to the text producer. Rhetorical questions such as “is sea vegetable seaweed?” also
represent the text producers' sense of disbelief, similarly, baffling the implied readership to share
this pejorative viewpoint.
Applicable to discourses too (with additional “discourse of decay” references.)
Audience positioning – text producer and audience
Word classes – material verbs e.g swarm, abstract nouns – unpleasantness, pre-modifying
adjectives e.g annoying (depends on context)
Pronouns show a lot about audience positioning – first person singular - I me my – shows info
about personal experiences. 1st person plural - We our us- about inclusion collective voice, text
receiver thinks like text producer you or, second person pronouns – plural or singular.
Assumption text receiver thinks and feels the same way as the text producer.
Epistemic modal auxiliary verbs – may– shows the possibility and ability to do something but with
less force.
Contrasts in levels of formality– humour arising from juxtaposition (paradox (oxymoron – big and
small)).
Deontic modal auxiliary verbs –shouldn't- shows power
Passive voice - depersonalises language.
Idiomatic expressions – humorous - Links in with formality and even non-standard forms
Figurative phrases – imagery, metaphors, simile, personification etc.
Guide the reader – clear topic sentences.
1. Use the word represents or representation.
2. Use linguistic terminology in nearly every sentence.
3. Focus on pragmatics
When reading through texts think about...
1. What or who is being represented.
2. How is language being used to represent what or who. Link it in to the who or what.
3. Why has language been used – for what meanings and representations alongside
contextual factors.
2.1 cover a range of different language levels
2.2 use a range of ao1 terms throughout
2.3 dive straight into the opening language and representation points
2.4 identify patterns rather than just stating the linguistic terminology
,Characteristics within this article.
Interactional characteristics
Pejorative opinion on food trends
Superlative – most
Positions reader to be irritated. Think and feel in a dominant way accept the irritation of the
writer
Trend – short lived connotations
Pride in regional identity - first person plural pronoun we copular verb are proper noun London.
Hypernyms – broad terms
Common items then artisans – juxtaposition of register – throughout text
Interrogative function – mimic language used in restaurants - pejorative view (below)
Anything you can lay your hands on (you can lay your hands on - monosyllabic words – one
syllable) can be made into a cocktail – idiomatic expression. Then followed up by radish, thistle
nectarini etc. Specific
Conversational features – coordinating conjunction - and
, “Posh version of junk food” contrasting - adjective posh antonym junk.
Constant idiomatic expressions – "doing the rounds”
Humoristic
Paleo diet followed by cave men
Who lived until the grand old age of setting expectation of 90 or 100, but undercuts, giving you as
small number 30
Copular verbs to give a certain sense.
We are London.
But it’s also a smart money-making move
- Strong sense of certainty.
Examples.
Use the word represent!
Linguistic terminology
Text A consistently uses premodifying adjectives and adverbs to represent food trends
pejoratively. The emphatic verb of degree “massively” in the phrase “massively overpriced”,
alongside the hyperbolic noun phrase “endless queues” and critical adjectival phrase “overly
complicated, combine to represent the dining experience as more effort than they are worth
according to the text producer. Rhetorical questions such as “is sea vegetable seaweed?” also
represent the text producers' sense of disbelief, similarly, baffling the implied readership to share
this pejorative viewpoint.
