Summary Features of the texts in Paris Anthology

Features of texts

Travel Guides:
-Orthographical and typographical features

-Brief summary of the location
-Includes a map (pictures and graphics)

-Historical sites and landmarks are included for entertainment
-Transportation links

Information, news, and advertising video clips:
-A variety of factual information

-Use of multisensory effects such as images, narration and music being integrated simultaneously
-Exophoric storytelling (narrating outside the text)

-Hyperbolic language (exaggeration)
-French lexical borrowing

-Diegetic and nondiegetic sounds
Transcripts of conversation/ monologues:

-Spontaneous
-High frequency of personal deixis

-Parenthesis
-Colloquial language

-Paralinguistic features (changes in tone, pitch and stress)
-Interactional features (turn-taking, overlapping)

-Repeated use of coordinating conjunctions
-Non fluency features (hedging, fillers, false starts and utterance)

-French lexical borrowing
Travel memoirs:

-French lexical borrowing
-Synaesthesia (mixing of senses)

-Asyndetic and syndetic listing
-Humour through figurative language

-Linear structure
-Reflective tone

-Comparative language