Analysing texts
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- Created on: 30-05-14 13:54
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- Analysing Texts
- Context/ purpose/ audience/ mode
- permanent/ ephemeral?
- distant/delayed/close/ immediate?
- transactional/ interactional?
- representation
- voluntary or 'captive' audience?
- Discourse
- summary paragraphs
- discourse markers
- explanation and example
- cohesive devices e.g. repetition
- question and answer
- use of lexical fields
- contrasts
- parallelisms
- Lexis and Register
- formal, colloquial, slang, taboo? is it consistent?
- lexical fields
- monosyllabic, disyllabic, polysyllabic
- jargon or foreign lexis?
- abstract nouns, particular function words, comparatives and superlatives
- neologisms - coinages, blends, compounds, clipping, conversion
- numbers/ statistics
- Semantics
- connotations of particular words
- synonyms or antonyms (opposites/ contrasts)
- figurative language - metaphor, simile, personificatoin
- repetition
- bias
- humour e.g. puns
- tautology (semantic repetition)
- hyperbole
- Grammar and Syntax
- first, second and third person
- verbs
- passive voice
- modal auxiliaries
- conditional, simple, complex, compound, minor sentences
- syntax i.e. non-standard
- sentence functions - imperatives, interrogatives, exclamatory, declarative
- pronouns
- Spoken Word Features
- elision
- ellipsis
- false starts
- adjacency pairs
- turn-taking
- paralinguistic features
- tag questions
- Grice's maxims
- fillers and unvoiced/ voiced pauses
- Phonology
- alliteration
- onomatopoeia
- assonance
- sibilance
- phonetic spellings
- Graphology (if relevant)
- general layout
- headings/subheadings
- pictorial elements
- listing devices e.g. bullet points
- Context/ purpose/ audience/ mode
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