Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
S: Travelling in Britain (Clitheroe) P: To inform/ advise/entertain A: British, Middle class and educated
readers
William Cobbett
Born in Surrey year 1793 Died in 1835 Ran a newspaper called the Political Register Publications consisted of political, historical and travel subjects: -In 1832 he was successful and elected as Member of Parliament for Oldham. Similar to David Mckie, most of his publications were aimed at a Middle class British audience. His text could be seen as biased as he was born in Surrey where the text is set.
WORD CHOICE
TEXT 9: Morgan
- Pre-modifying adjectives such as "pleasant" and "terrifying"
- Sophisticated lexis: Written by Guardian Journalist - Dialogue from actual bus journey, uses speech marks to emphasise this. Means the audience can engage with the piece of writing as it becomes more real to them. - Elliptical sentences to show idiolect of school kids.
GRAMMAR
TEXT 29: Asher Pre-modifying adjectives Use of complex sentences - pleasant villages indicate the texts audience highlights/emphasises positivity towards (adult/educated)
Clitheroe
Adjectives to portray feeling enjoyable, glorious highlights/emphasises positive experience Compound sentences line 3 suggest it is targeted at educated readers Asyndetic listing & syndetic listing line 31 , 32 emphasises abnormality of location and differences.
TEXT 9: Abu
Personal pronoun I shows that it is written in the first person -...only, I presume, because I was labouring...
Use of superlatives; -best and worst line 2 present the piece in a negative way -emphasis nice light black mould Line 7 Writer used juxtaposition linking back to the inverse superlatives on line 2. -Presenting both good and bad. Black mould: Imagery -visual image allowing them to engage with the text.