All these are semantic fields.

Drugs and alcohol.

 

•Poisonous

•Drugs
•Gun
•Sleaze
•Marijuana
•Drinking
•Abusive

•Toxic

Poisonous princess and toxic role model =Are examples of an Oxymoron's.

 

Rihanna uses her own dialect when responding to the journalist's opinion on her.

Colloquial language

(slang)

 

Page 148 - Activity 40

Extract A- The main character is a women has done something terrible in the past which could risk her chances in getting employed.

Extract B - About a women where other peole notice she should be a doctor as well as her wanting to become a doctor but don't have qualifications.

Extract C- About a doctor whose work is always so overcrowded and speaks upon how busy it is. Use of ellipses and short sentence.

Extract D- About a person who has a good perspective on life and tries to bring light into a dark room, as patients are always down

Extract E- A perspective from a doctors wife as it bothers her that he's all about the patients and has no time for her as he also overworks, this explains to is that the wife is quite family orientated.

Extract F - A perspective of a works patient who frequently visits and feels confused As to why the surgery is always empty. You can also see that the patient is quite religious and show show important the faith to them.

Extract G - about a very dependent reptionist and from her point of view she realises that patients are waiting doctors time with every little excuse. She's explains that shes in pain but could easily get better with an aspirin.

3) I think Extract C has the most effective opening as it jumps straight into action with a short sentence leaving the listener interested and ready to continue listening.

4) No as their not as effective as Extract C.

Conventions of a Dramatic Monologue

A dramatic monologue is a poem that shares many features with a speech from a play: one person speaks, and in that speech there are clues to his/her character, the character of the implied person or people that s/he is speaking to, the situation in which it is spoken and the story that has led to this situation.As a covention, each dramatic monologue should include: ... The background of the poem is interesting, but the text can be difficult to understand. The use of dramatic monologue works to separate the speaker from the poet.

Transcript

Micheal: So Eunice, How was football..

Me: .. It was good thanks

Michael: DId you score any goals?

Me: Yeah! 

Michael: How many?

Me: 2!

Michael: Ah, That's great you know

Me: I scored a volley

Michael: Swear down?!

Me: Yeah

Michael: Oh, Ay ain't you hungry?

Me: Yeah, I'm hungry!

Michael: You might as well go make yourself something to eat

Me: What's there to eat?

Michael: I don't even know yet, you're gonna have to go check

Me: Arghh, Okay..

Homework

What does "colloquial" mean?
Characteristics that has a lack of formality. 

PAGE 17 
Question 1 - YEAH - not there
                   - KNOW - not there
                   - (LAUGH) - N/A
                   - MHMM - not there
                   - SO - not there

Question 2 
   A) Laughing is identified as communication as you're replying to someone with a feeling. However, coughing is a spoken language but it is not used as communications to respond to someone with feelings. It is a bodily function, unless you are coughing which can be used to suggest sarcasm or hinting something to someone, it cannot be used as a response during communication. 

B) 

Keywords!

Phatic language - using it to be sociable (fillers, small talk)

Formality -The way people adjust the tone of their language to suit the situation they are in e.g. Slang
Deixis - Word that refers to something else (point) Dietetic
Pronoun- A word used in place of a noun.
Context Dependent - you need to know what was happening before.
Context Independent - Anyone can walk in and understand due to precise details
Locution - "I'm in the bath." (Literal meaning)
Illocution - "You get the phone." (Predicted meaning)
Perlocution - "I'll have to get the phone." (Precise meaning)
Cultural Assumptions - A person from another country, or culture, may not understand the things that we know
Graphology = Structure, Fronts, Punctuation.
Pragmatics = Underlined meanings
Euphemism = When you say a bad thing as a good thing
Nuance = Layers of speech (subtle)
Field - Topic (what is it about)

Tenor - who/whom ( relationship between writer and reader )
Function - why (purpose)
Phonology- the sounds of language eg. Cat , Car , Khan etc.

Lexis - Choice of words

Morphology- word structure

Grammar - Sentence structure

Discourse - Structure of whole text e.g. Layout

Written or Spoken

"Right spacecraft at the right time" This is spoken as it has the quotation marks showing you that they're speaking to us. It is also an audio note meaning we are able to hear what's being said.

Russian and US ministers begin key talks in Geneva, expressing hope a plan for Syria's chemical arms can prevent military action. This is written communication as they are giving us information, not verbally as there isn't any quotes, play buttons etc.

Electronic Modes

Modern Technology

• Television - One way communication
• Mobile Phone - Interactive
• Radio - One way communication
• Social websites - Interactive
• Internet - Interacive/One way communication
• Email - Interactive
• iPad -Interactive/
• Laptop terative/One way communication
• Fax -Interactive
• iPod - Interative/One way communication
• Game consoles - Interactive/One way communication
• MP3 - One way communication

Analysis

The mode of this text is a Whatsapp Message.
The field of this was to know if the homework has been completed.
The tenor of this is text is my friend/classmate
The function of this text was to inform each other whether the homework has been completed.

George Orwell

George Orwell explains how the English language is in a bad state, but we cannot do anything about this. Adding on to this he explains how people compare 'candles to electricity lights', this means the revolution is happening rapidly, this shows how people have shaped the language into their own dialect.

One of Orwell's main aspects was the 'political and economic causes', I think he is explaining that when one person uses language the other person will gradually evolve it and transform it. As an example, Orwell explains to us 'A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks', From this statement Orwell is inferring that the language is being effected by the decision of the past generation.

Also according to Orwell, the English language has become 'ugly' or 'inaccurate', As Orwell describes our thoughts as being 'foolish'. This is leading to our 'slovenliness' of our language, this betrays Orwell's hatred upon our modern language.

In conclusion Orwell also describes the disposal of verbs and producing them as phrases made up of nouns and adjectives. In certain types of writing i.e. art criticism and literacy criticism it is frequent to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning. So Orwell is portraying that words 'romantic and plastic' are meaningless. Overall I think main objective of the blog was to show his passion of hatred towards English language, but also hopes bad habits are changing.

In my opinion, I agree with Orwell as the English language massively over the period of English language but to be fair different generations will change the method of how the English language is spoken.