AS English Language Framework spider diagram
Just a spider diagram with all the key facts about the different frameworks for analysing texts :)
- Created by: Niamh Corcoran
- Created on: 22-04-13 18:10
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- Frameworks
- Lexis
- The vocabulary of a langauge
- When texts share a topic or focus they will use similar words e.g. in an advert for mobile phones sim card and battery life will be used, this is the lexical field.
- Semantics
- This can be explicit or implicit. Words will hve literal meanings but it can be associated with other meanings e.g. red is a colour but also represents danger.
- The study of how meaning is created through words and phrases.
- Grammar
- Grammar is the system of rules how words and sentences are constructed.
- A system that classifies words in to word classes e.g. nouns, verbs, adjectives.
- Rules about how they function in relation to eachother (syntax)
- The individual units that make up whole words (morphology)
- Phonology
- Phonology is the study or sounds, how they're produced and combined to make words.
- This includes non-verbal aspects of speech or prosody- features of spoken language such as pace, stress, rhythm and intonation
- Phonology is the study or sounds, how they're produced and combined to make words.
- Pragmatics
- It is about social conventions, context, personality and relationships. This affects the choices people make in their speech. e.g. level of formality and social conventions
- A student might address their teacher at Miss Rogers or Lizzie depending on what the school or college sees as acceptable
- Graphology
- It is the study of the writing and the effect this has on the text.
- When you discuss the graphology you analyse features such as the typeface, the positioning of a text and the relationship between text and images.
- Discourse
- Discourse is an extended piece of spoken or written langauge, made up of more than one utterance (spoken) or one sentence (written).
- Lexis
- The study of how meaning is created through words and phrases.
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