Beth Chappell

Milroy's 'Belfast' study. - Members of a speech community are connected to each other in social networks which may be relatively 'closed' or 'open'. - Closed network = When all a person's contacts know each other - High density - (typically men) - Open network = When a person's contacts tend to not know each other. - Low density - (typically women) - Links between people may be different; friends, relatives, neighbors, workmates. The links could also be more multiplex if they're connected in several ways e.g. job, family, leisure activities etc. - Dense networks function as norm-enforcement mechanisms - a 'closely knit' group will enforce linguistic norms. - Investigated correlation between the integration of individuals within that community and they way they spoke. - She gave each individual a 'Network Strength Score' based on their knowledge of the people in their community. - Workplace and leisure activities score 1-5 ...

How does text A use language to create meanings and representations? Text A is an informal computer mediated article that focuses on female cycling. It is a multi modal text as it is written and contains a lot of quoted speech which appears to be by Lizzie Armistead. This article is directed towards those that are interested in cycling and its purpose is to show the difficulties concerning female cyclists. Throughout the article it is apparent that it's as if Andy McGrath is telling the audience a story concering Lizzie Armistead's current issue with her cycling and being "Pretty old". There are also little bits scattered around the article where the language used sounds as though McGrathis writing out a diary entry or including his subconscious. One of the main things that stuck out to me concerning it sounding like a story was the compound sentence, "I give a quizzical look to encourage a reaction." The strong adjective "quizzical" is somethi...

How might text A use language to create meanings and representations? Text A is an interview of a police officer on an online website directed towards teens who may be interested in the police profession. All over the website page shows that it's directed towards this type of audience due to the types of graphology use which I will go into further detail about later on. The interview is to give an insight into what the police profession is really like and how many different options there are within it, all in all, this whole interview and website page all have the means of promoting the job. The article itself is multi modal which is being used to persuade teens into the police profession. It is quite informal throughout and the subject is of course, the police force. Throughout the web page it is evident that the target audience is towards teens due to the graphology. which includes the graffiti styled font. This font gives off more of an urban vibe and also ties together with...

Task 1 In this article James Orr talks about how the cockney slang is "dying out" and how only small amounts of people within the 2,000 people he interviewed actually knew any of this slang on the meanings behind it. The most popular cockney slang still used today was "porky pies" but only 13% (260 people) of all the people interviewed were still using this phrase and 1 out of 10 people were still using the phrase "cream crackered". As there was such a low use of this slang out of the 2,000 people, it shows that cockney rhyming slang really is on the decline. Although, there are still new phrases being made and getting added onto the list of phrases, these include things like; "he was wearing his Barack Obamas" - this shows that even tho the use of cockney slang is on the decline, people who are still using it and modernizing it. Task 2 Q1 - What does Nikesh Shukla believe has happened to Cockney rhyming slang? From what he's saying, ...

Initial Questions 1. What type of reader knowledge does this text assume? It seems that the text is assuming that the reader is a married women. I know this as they talk about a man being messy and talking about the husband in the stereotypical way. I also know that it is for a wife as the product is directed towards women. 2. This text was found on the side of a shower gel bottle. How might this have influenced the kinds of linguistic decisions the text producer made. As this was on the side of a product, the text would have to be relevant to both the product and the audience and shouldn't have any taboo language. to be able to tick these 3 boxes, the text producer made a typical scenario of a married women with no children. They also replaces taboo language (swear words) with the word "blooming" to make it specific to the flowery product. Detailed questions 1. How does this text represent males and females. This text seems to be going along with present da...

Analyse how Text B uses language to create meanings and representations (AO1 + AO3) This article is an opinion piece written by Stephen Glover. It seems to be somewhat formal through out but there are times when Stephen may be expressing his views and opinions a bit to harshly. This article appears to be aimed at people in their late 20’s and older due to the nature of the topic, it may even be directed towards anyone who’s eligible to vote in the UK as this is a matter everyone is affected by and should be taking action on depending on what they think. First off, the title gives a strong impression as to what Stephen Glover’s views are and exactly what he’s trying to get across. The first technique I am able to identify is the mitigating device “Sorry, but” which can also be interpreted as a cloaked imperative. When interpreted as a mitigating device, on it’s own, it makes the text seem a lot softer and doesn’t make it sound as harsh with the message it is really trying to ...