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2. Gender issues e.g. Jamie Oliver vs Delia Smith, Richard and Judy, Jo and Twiggy, Des
and Mel.
9. An investigation into strategies of human politeness behaviour and whether these are age
related.
10. Analysis of differences between spoken and written English e.g. radio v. press, news or
sports reports.
12. Exploration of stylistic features of media forms e.g. magazines, tv programmes, websites.
Look at how language is related to the audience.
13. Do women have less confidence than men in their recognition and use of computer
related jargon?
14. How is slang used differently by 16-19 year old students at one state and one private
sixth form institution?
17. Is there a gendered difference in the use of text messaging language forms?
18. Is there any evidence to suggest that the language of text messaging is undergoing any
of the processes of standardisation?
19. Does the degree of friendship influence the power dynamics of conversation between
same sex pairs of teenage friends?
21. Does British English of the last fifteen years still encode sexism?
22. The Language of Beer Mats
38. Comparison of literary texts (eg Yellow Wallpaper & Bridget Jones. Re: Lang Change)
42. Teacher Talk. Record a teacher working with their students. Examine power features
employed.
43. Gender issues. Record a male group & female group discussing the same topic/ stimulus.
Compare the differences.
45. Taboo language. Record 2 different age/social/gender groups and compare their use of
taboo language. Is it becoming more prevalent? More acceptable?
46. Occupational lexis. Record a person at work, or within any social group
47. (eg: doctors/solicitors/mechanics/football fans) where specialised language
48. might be used. Examine the functions of their jargon. How & why is it used?
49. Child Language Acquisition. Record children talking as they perform a task – eg lego
building. Read them stories and ask them to re-tell it in writing, or on tape.
50. The Lexis of sports commentators. Record & transcribe a few commentaries. Compare
extracts of at least 3 different speakers to investigate if there is a recognisable genre.
51. The Lexis of Football/ Sport. Record a group of fans discussing a sport. Could examine in
terms of field-specific lexis, co-operation and/or power shifts.
52. Choose 3 adverts for similar products. Analyse in terms of target audiences. Are there
any differences? Similarities? You can compare adverts from different times
53. How shop names/brand names of cosmetics/ band names/ car names reflect the
concerns of society and how they have changed over time.
54. An investigation into the growing informality of English, as evident in e-mail and chat-
room culture. Examine in terms of a few carefully selected e-texts.
55. The prevalence of Black English Vernacular in popular culture. Why is it fast becoming
the most popular variety of English for teenagers today? Examine in terms of a few
selected texts.
58. Gender stereotyping in children’s’ literature. Select 3 extracts from texts from perhaps the
1940s/1950s (like Enid Blyton’s “The Famous Five” or Arthur Ransom’s “Swallows and
Amazons”) and examine for gender bias.
59. Gender stereotyping in any type of text you would like to examine. This could be – tabloid
newspapers, lifestyle/sport/car/fashion/music magazines. Analyse in terms of the target
audiences and shared cultural assumptions. A good one to do might be superhero or
fantasy-type comics, where stereotypes are often employed.
60. How attitudes to gender roles have changed. Compare different texts, such as a Mills &
Boon story and the Roger McGough poem “Jogger’s Song” to illustrate how society has
altered its views. You could possibly choose problem page letters to agony aunts in
magazines from different decades.
63. Does the language of personal ads vary depending on gender and sexuality?
64. The use of language in English and Irish newspaper reports on the decommisioning of
weapons in NI.
65. How flyers for classical and dance music persuade their different audiences to attend
66. The representation of David Beckham after the Greece v England game compared with
previous press coverage
67. Aims and use of language in song lyrics of Gil Scott Heron and the speeches of Tony
Blair and George Bush
68. Change in tabloid and broadsheet papers as the war in Afghanistan develops
69. How has language in fashion ads. Changed due to social and fashion development in the
last 30 years
70. The use of derogatory terms for social minorities in mixed-sex groups of 14 and 40
71. Billy Connolly's use of Scottish dialect as he has developed from local to international
performer
72. Influence of gender on ads. For the same product in men's and women's magazines
81. Shakespeare's 'Midsummer Night's Dream' compared with Shakespeare Made Easy
94. Development of children's writing, looking at male and female writers over 6 months
95. Scottish and West country speech, looking at the effect of West country context on
Scottish speaker
97. The language of 'Rocky Horror Show' and 'Frankenstein' examining pastiche
102. An Investigation into the ways in which male and female writers covertly use
gendered language in writing their ‘Dream Journey’ Original Writing.
103. ‘Bush for Brains’ An Investigation into how George Bush uses language to justify
military action on Afghanistan.
105. ‘The writers and illustrators [of comics and books] portray their own ideas of the real
or an ideal world, showing implicit discrimination by sex’ – Just Like a Girl, Sue Sharpe,
Penguin, 1976. To what extent do the differences in language used in two children’s
annuals written in 1963 portray such gender bias?
106. ‘Notorious Nanny in Child Death Shocker’ – An Investigation into how Judge Hiller
Zobel’s summing up speech could have influenced the jury’s final verdict in the case of
Louise Woodward.
107. An Investigation into the content of teen magazines. Do they inform of the risks
involved in sex or do they use sex as an entertainment strategy.
108. An Investigation into the use of Politically Correct language. A comparison of Enid
Blyton and J.K. Rowling.
109. An Investigation into whether the presentation of the Royal Family in the press has
changed from the 1950’s to the present day.
110. ‘Those Who Can…Teach’ – How do teachers use different linguistic techniques to
command authority in the classroom.
111. An Investigation into how the Middle East Crisis was reported in a Lebanese as
opposed to an English newspaper on June 21st 2002.
112. ‘The Thatchill Speech’ – An Investigation into Margaret Thatcher’s 1982 Falkland and
Winston Churchill’s June 1940 Battle of Dunkirk speeches.
114. How does Tony Soprano use language to try to retain power with the women in his
life and gain power over his psychiatrist?
115. ‘Kung Fu Fighting in Saipan’ – How does the tabloid press attempt to influence public
opinion when writing about national football teams?
116. Graham Norton: Comedian or Chat Show Host? How does Graham Norton use
language to create comedy within the chat show framework?