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Meaning and Representations
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Politics
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Conservatives
Daily Mail
Daily Telegraph
Financial times
The Sun
The times
Labour
The guardian
Daily Mirror
Morning Star
Lib-Dems
The independent
Graphology
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Older :pen:
Black and White
No illustration
Small text
Modern Magazines :pen:
Glossy pictures
Overlaid
Different font types
Books :pen:
Early
two columns per page
Large margins for notes
Modern
Variety
Different type faces
Different colours
Electronic :pen:
Can be more creative
Printing costs don't exist
Incorporate animated texts and images
Style of font can be chosen by purpose
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Genre
Article
Blog
Light hearted
Critical
Audience
Age
Class
Political affiliation
Purpose
Inform
Entertain
Pursuade
Instruct
What is the issue?
How is it represented?
How is the text producer representing themselves?
First person?
Third person?
Educated or someone elses view?
Authority?
Bias?
Does it change?
Do they contradict themselves
How is the target audience positioned?
Engaged?
Personal pronouns/synthetic personalisation?
Rhetorical questions?
What is the attitude?
How is it conveyed?
Descriptive/evaluative adjectives used?
Is there a tone?
Semantic patterns
New Articles
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Refer to
Context
throughout :!!:
Graphology
Why have the images been chosen
Do they link to their views/views of authority at the time
Do they include or exclude particular social groups?
Is there field specific/specialist lexis?
Shows if the text producer is educated on the subject
Is the text producer showing bias?
Why?
Personal view or politics?
Shaped by who their target audience?
Label language :!!:
Adjectives
Nouns
Adverbs
Clauses
Sentence types
Declarative/Interrogative/Exclamative/Imperative
Minor/Simple/Complex/Compound
Header
How is this used to draw a reader in?
Is it click-bait?
Does this link to the paper its from?
Is there a consistent formality?
Or is there a shift when topic shifts?
Linked to attitude shift?
Interactional features?
Social media links
Comment section
Intertexual features?
Allusion, quotation, translation
Evidence to support their point?
Pictures
Videos
Stats
Older
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Check the date :!!:
What was happening at this time?
Attitudes towards women
Political views
Is there a shift in views about to happen?
The suffragette movement
Language at the time
Archaic/Obsolete
Syntax?
Particular lexis/grammatical features of the time
The Long S
Do the sentence constructions mean anything?
The date reflects formality
Is it the date or the nature of the article?
Does this reflect the language?
Prestigious?
Is the producer showing bias?
Is it their personal views?
Are they influenced by politics?
Is this shaped by their target audience?
Does the text producer support the views?
Quotations
Facts
Comparison
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Use comparative language:!!:
Whilst/Similarly
This stops analysis
Label language similarities and differences
Looks for A01
Questions
Pronoun use
Dynamic Verbs
Semantic fields
Provide tightly focused examples
Develop points in terms on context
Integrate linguistic comparison
discuss different representations and social contexts
How is the issue presented differently?
Compare social/historical context and their effects on language use
Not just linguistics:!!:
Make it evaluative not list like:!:
State why attitudes are different
How are the approaches to the topic different?
Sim/Differs of:
Tenses
First/third person
Inclusion/exclusion
Light hearted/serious
Formal/informal
Use of facts/opinions