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Things you
can do to take your investigation of language further......
- Collect
anything which comes through your door which you think has
a purpose to persuade. (e.g. adverts, circulars, letters from
charities)
- Highlight
or underline words or sentences which you think work to persuade
the reader. (Questions? Emotive language?)
- Compare
different texts which inform readers. (Text books, manuals,
recipes )
- Highlight
the words which instruct here. (Verbs)
- Make a list
of words which are particularly linked with the subject. (e.g. "cooking" words, "DIY" words).
List them as nouns, verbs or adjectives.
- Record the
TV news or part of a documentary programme (about ten minutes).
- Make notes
on the kind of language used by different speakers (Formal?
Informal? Emotive? Scientific? Linked to a certain subject
or topic?)
- Record examples
of natural speech and scripted speech, e.g. an interview with
an eyewitness to an accident, an interview with a player or
manager after a sports event and a conversation between two
characters in a soap opera.
- Make notes
on any things you notice that are different in the two examples
you choose. Are sentences complete? Do the speakers repeat
themselves? Do they stay on the same subject? Does the speaking
develop and move on to other subjects logically?
- Make notes
on anything you notice about the way men and women speak. Do
they use different kinds of language? Does one say more than
the other?
- Watch a
TV programme about a particular job like "A and E", "ER", "Vets
in Practice", "Changing Rooms" or interview
a parent or friend about his/her job.
- Make a list
of words, nouns, verbs, adjectives or expressions which are
liked with this job.
Try
a quiz on Speech and Writing
Lancashire
Dialect Matching Exercise
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