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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