P1 Q1 Language under the microscope

• What four contextual factors do you consider in P1 Q1?

  Audience, Writer, Genre & Purpose (Primary and sometimes secondary)
• How do you divide the 40 minutes of time spent on Q1?

  10 minutes to read + annotate text. 15 minutes on question 1a , 15 minutes on question 1b
• What do you analyse in 1A?

  Lexis and Semantics, Language techniques, how they are used and their relation to context
• What do you analyse in 1B?

  Grammar and Syntax, structure techniques, how they are used and their relation to context
• What type of modal verb conveys obligation, rather than suggestion?

  Deontic
• What type of modal verb conveys suggestion, rather than obligation?

  epistemic
• Which sentence construction is used to make a threat or a promise?

  Commisive
• What is it called when a speaker or writer shortens a word by deleting a syllable?

  Clipping (Apheresis - Start of Word) (Apocope - End of word)
• Talk that refers to a specific topic is known as what?

  Referential talk
• Talk that leads to an outcome or completion of a task is called what?

  Transactional talk