ENG1502 Assignment 1
(COMPLETE ANSWERS) 2025 -
DUE April 2025
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, ENG1502 Assignment 1 (COMPLETE
ANSWERS) 2025 - DUE April 2025
Question 1 Language as a semiotic system “… is
thought of as a system where the individual
elements – signs – take their overall meaning from
how they are combined with other elements”
(Carter & Goddard, 2016, p. 45). Bearing this
quotation in mind, study TEXT A before you answer
the questions that follow. You may also refer to
Table 1 (Aspects of language) which is attached but
can also be found on page 8 of Tutorial Letter 501.
TEXT A What will 2021 bring? Never before have
we started a new year with so many questions, to
which there are so little answers (or are there)? A
friend gave my 10-year-old grandson a little round
grey object as a birthday present recently, and I
just could not figure out what it was, or why he was
so excited about it than the new swimming trunk
decorated with huge and colourful toucans that I
gave him. It turned out to be a mini smart speaker,
or more precisely, an Artificial intelligence voice-
controlled assistant called a Google Home Speaker,
apparently designed to control the home by voice
command, leaving your hands free to do other
things. After a swift little DIY procedure requiring a
small screwdriver, he connected another small
(COMPLETE ANSWERS) 2025 -
DUE April 2025
100% GUARANTEEED
, ENG1502 Assignment 1 (COMPLETE
ANSWERS) 2025 - DUE April 2025
Question 1 Language as a semiotic system “… is
thought of as a system where the individual
elements – signs – take their overall meaning from
how they are combined with other elements”
(Carter & Goddard, 2016, p. 45). Bearing this
quotation in mind, study TEXT A before you answer
the questions that follow. You may also refer to
Table 1 (Aspects of language) which is attached but
can also be found on page 8 of Tutorial Letter 501.
TEXT A What will 2021 bring? Never before have
we started a new year with so many questions, to
which there are so little answers (or are there)? A
friend gave my 10-year-old grandson a little round
grey object as a birthday present recently, and I
just could not figure out what it was, or why he was
so excited about it than the new swimming trunk
decorated with huge and colourful toucans that I
gave him. It turned out to be a mini smart speaker,
or more precisely, an Artificial intelligence voice-
controlled assistant called a Google Home Speaker,
apparently designed to control the home by voice
command, leaving your hands free to do other
things. After a swift little DIY procedure requiring a
small screwdriver, he connected another small
