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• What is the structure for answering?

  G - genre

  A - audience

  P - purpose

  W - writer (status + authority)

  A - attitude + period

  C - context
• How many marks?

  60 marks

  • AO2 ~ 20 marks
  • AO3 ~ 20 marks
  • AO4 ~ 20 marks
• AO2:

  • Detailed critical understanding of concept and issues relevant to language use
  • Perceptive discussion of issues
  • Confident and concise selection of contextual support
• AO3:

  • Confident analysis of contextual factors
  • Productive discussion of the construction of meaning
  • Perceptive evaluation
• AO4:

  • Insightful connections established between texts
  • Sophisticated overview
  • Effective use of linguistic knowledge
• Concepts:

  • Genre
  • Audience
  • Purpose
  • Language change
  • Register
  • Spoken & written
  • Child language acquisition
  • Standard & non-standard English
• Issues:

  • Gender
  • Politeness
  • Accent
  • Class
  • Race
  • Religion
  • Status
  • Power
  • Attitudes
  • Identity
• Periods in English:

  1. Before English (prehistory - 500AD)
  2. Old English (500 - 1100)
  3. Middle English (1100-1500)
  4. Early Modern English (1500 - 1800)
  5. Late Modern English (1800 - present)
  6. Present Day English
• Features of EME:

  • Long compound-complex sentences made up of successive clauses
  • Frequent use of commas to divide successive clauses
  • Semi-colon rather than full stop
  • Symbols to save space
  • Roman Numerals
  • Capitalisation of nouns & inconsistent capitalisation
  • NO apostrophe for possession ~ only omission
  • Virgule (slash /) instead of full stop
  • NO speech marks
  • Compounding of words no longer used
  • Frequent subordination
  • Auxiliary "to be" instead of "to have"
  • No common contractions ("don't" "can't")
  • Passive voice
• Think about WHY the author may have done this
• Looking at how that GENRE, audience + purpose has changed over time
• How does time effect language?

  What were people's attitudes?
• Compare the texts for how they represent societal change
• Can talk about theories
• NO spelling

  NO grammar