English Language Paper 1

PHONETICS - how speech and sounds are articulated

How sounds might represent groups of people?

How dialects might vary?

how dialects and/or accents might represent class,job, group of friends etc?

if words are spelt as they sound, what might this show?

The use of sounds for effect (intonation, stress, pitch)

phonemes (individual unit of sound)

GRAPHOLOGY - the visual aspects of the text's design and appearance

why does the text look the way it does?

is the texts successful in relation to its audience and purpose?

what ideas and beliefs does the text present in its images?

how do the images and text work together to make the text cohesive?

is the text accessible?

are there features that are typical of the discourse e.g. hyperlinks?

layout on the page e.g. spacing, text boxes, the way its presented etc

typographical features e.g.font type, size, colour

multi modal texts e.g. combining images and writing to create meaning

LEXIS AND SEMANTICS - the vocabulary, is meaning and the groups it belongs to

what do the words denote and connote?

are there any neologisms, what might this suggest about the text and its context?

what is the formality like and how does the text show this?

how do the words and groups of words link to audience and purpose?

why have certain words been chosen over others (latinate/ french lexis)?

how is gender conveyed through lexical choices e.g. marked terms?

vocabulary levels

figurative language e.g. metaphor, simile, imagery

synonyms, antonyms

hypernyms, hyponyms

connotations and denotations

semantic/lexical fields of words

slang, colloquialisms

taboo, legalistic, informal lexis

blends, compounds, acronyms, initialism and eponyms

semantic broadening/narrowing, pejoration/amelioration

neologisms

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