Thursday, 31 October 2013

My first grouping are texts A and C. These texts both have an audience of parents and adults. The texts context is their to persuade and inform.
The Ikea text (text C) is there to persuade you to buy the Ikea products with use of graphology and persuasive lexical choices such as 'sit back', 'lay down' and 'roll over' these imperatives are humorous because of the phonology used. this gives the text rhythm and suggests a command to a dog. The audience is also aimed at home-owners and the flyer is sent by post so the discourse structure and graphology needs to catch the home owners eyes to read the flyer in stead of them throwing in straight in the bin.

The road safety text (text A) primary purpose is to inform parents and adults who read a magazine, about how children copy adults when crossing the road. the lexical choices used such as the repetitive copying of a sentence, uses a great use of graphology with the colour of the children's writing being red which could represent blood, the text is also smeared as if the adult is crying over the text while reading it, reflecting such emotion up on the advert.

My second grouping of texts are D and E. Text D is the opening of a children's book. This uses great graphology features to support the linguistic methods used. the texts purpose is to entertain and the audience for the text is children, the pictures relate to the text to tell the story and to get a picture into the child's head creating an idea of there imagination of the story. However the language used in the text is standard English therefore some of the lexical choices could be hard for children to read so this book may be for an adult to read out loud for a child.

Text E is a text from a birdwatchers guide. the text is also entertain but more in a information form. The audience is more for adults and birdwatchers that understand the hobby, this is a difference between the two texts. The pragmatics used in graphology is used in text E to with pictures of birds to go with the information on the text to also tell the story and show what the birds look like. The register of this text is also standard English to make the lexical choices clear and interesting to read for adults.

My last grouping of texts are D and B. text B is an extract from he script of 'Blackadder goes forth' a comedy set during the 1914-18 war. The purpose of the text is to entertain the people of the war. The texts audience is for adults in the war and it is there to humour and lighten the mood of the time period it was from.
Spoken language features are used through the dialogue this is also used in the text D, the opening of the children's book is also spoken language and they both use slang English to set the time period to the audience for entertainment.

1 comment:

  1. Good go! Continue to exemplify and then the analysis will follow.

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