Form, Purpose, Audience

Here are 5 texts with the Form, Purpose and Audience highlighted:

The Guardian Refugee Crisis in Hungary and Croatia:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2015/sep/16/first-refugees-head-for-croatia-after-hungarys-border-crackdown-live-updates

Form: News article
Purpose: To inform the public of the current humanitarian crisis.
Audience: Educated Adults that are currently worried about overseas relations and issues.


OK Magazine article on Cheryl Fernandez-Versini:
http://www.ok.co.uk/fashion/cheryl-fernandez-versini-wardrobe-secrets

Form: Magazine article
Purpose: To entertain
Audience: People with a common interest of Cheryl Fernandez-Versini and fashion


The Doctor Lucus diaries from December 1813 and on wards digitalised:
https://thedrlucasdiaries.wordpress.com/2013/11/29/30th-november-1813/

Form: Diary
Purpose: Then: for personal record, Now: For public record and to inform.
Audience: Historians and anyone with a passion or interest in people and life in the 1800's


Science Article about solar systems:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/09/150915211331.htm


Form: Article
Purpose: To teach and inform
Audience: Scientist or members of the public with an interest in space and science.

English Language: Terminology

Framework

Lexis: Word choice. Meaning at word and phrase level.

Grammar: How the Language is built i.e. the structure and rules which underpin how we form sentences.

Phonology: How we organise the sounds of our language to produce certain effects including rythm, rhyme, intonation, stress and pauses etc.

Pragmatics: How we know what language means when it is used in a specific context, sometimes described as 'Reading between the lines'. 

Discourse: 1) How longer stretches of text are organised (cohesion- how it holds together e.g. use of discourse markers) 2) The way texts create identities for particular individuals, groups or institutions e.g. the discourse of Law, Politics and the media.

Graphology: How the designs of a text can contribute to meaning including use of fonts, graphics and colours etc.

Related concepts:

Register: How language varies in relation to audience, purpose and context e.g. a formal letter uses a different register to one written to a friend.

Mode: How language may vary according to the channel of communication (speech, writing and mixed modes) e.g. how you would write something down as a message would be different from how you would pass it on orally.

Idiolect: The unique way one person expresses themselves due to their personality, belief systems, social experience etc.

Sociolect: The way of expressing themselves that a social group have in common e.g. we could generalise the way teenagers speak, aristocrats speak and students speak etc.

Dialect: The variation in word choice and grammatical structure due to where someone lives e.g. "Cheers drive" is a Bristolian saying, as is the grammatical structure "where's she too?"

English Lit and Lang Work: Books

What books do I enjoy reading and Why?

I enjoy reading anything from Romance and Comedy to Action and Fantasy. I like the way reading envelops me and encourages me to walk through another persons imagination and, with autobiographies, walking in the authors shoes. The books I am most interested in are fantasy books like the Game of Thrones series, The hunger games series, The maze runner series and single books like The book thief. I enjoy these books the most because I get lost in another world and I get to explore places that are are different form the real world and it makes me feel like an adventurer of lost and hidden places.
I like Romance novels and even popular fiction like We are all made of stars by Rowan Coleman and The fault in our stars by John Green.
These books spark my interest as I am a naturally nosy person. Aren't we all? Books like these really touch me and I think help me and others grow as people and help us understand other peoples situations and feelings in more depth than a magazine article or a news report.
I even enjoy horror and thriller because I love the burst of adrenaline I get when I'm frightened or shocked.

Book Review:

The book thief: 

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/14/books/review/14greenj.html?_r=0

The reviewer starts by criticizing the narration by death calling him "not very absorbing" and saying that his "periodic soliloquies aren't the most effective moments of the novel. This suggests the reviewer has a negative view of the book. 

It seems his attitude to the book changes when talking about the main character calling her "a well drawn character", however then counteracts that by saying that the book is "slow" until the Jewish 24 year old character Max Vandenburg is introduced. The reviewer see the running theme that "Winners often lose" Suggesting that the reviewer see's a sadness within the novel. 

Overall the reviewer has a very optimistic attitude to the book as he talks about the hope that he sees reflected in the novel. However the reviewer suggest that this could be more interesting to young adults and adults than to teenagers as it has a slow start.