Chat Room Analysis

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Frameworks Overview

Hello!

Please find links to some simple Powerpoint presentations explaining some important terminology! Have a look through them and get as familiar as you can with the basics!

Grammar 1

Grammar 2

Lexis and Semantics

Phonological Framework

Nina

WW1 Language

Here is a great article on language used and developed during WW1. Can you find any examples in Strange Meeting?

WW1 Language

Half Term Homework Task

The aim of this task is to get you as familiar as you can with Part One of the novel Strange Meeting. The exam question will always ask you to explore the representations of speech from a short extract of the novel and then you have to refer to another extract yourself...therefore, you need to be as familiar as you can with key passages that revolve around dialogue.

Complete the table attached here.

Dialogue Task

You will need to download it in order to work on it. Find page references and sections that you could refer to for each character in Part One, giving a brief summary of what is happening and some key language features used. You must show me this after half term but ultimately this a useful reference tool for you!

You also need to continue with your work on Garrett. You must come to the first lesson back prepared to discuss a range of comments about the extract you have been given and we will work on a model response together.

You could have a full response prepared and you can see how yours compares. This would be extremely useful and you would really learn how to improve on your analysis of speech and other language issues.

Good Luck

Nina

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Spoken Language Resources

Hello,

Here are some resources used in class to support your work on spoken language. Hope you find them useful.

Introduction to ELLA 2

Features of Spoken English

Analysing Conversation

Some Conversation Theory

Labov's Narrative Categories

These are just some powerpoints but they are a good starting point for the analysis of spotaneous speech.

Good Luck

Nina

Streetcar Work

Dear Lang/Lit students

We have completed our first reading of A Streetcar Named Desire and we need to start looking at it as a whole. The first task I would like you to do is to create a collection of character descriptions and you need to think carefully about how Williams presents each character, being as thorough as you can:

• What are they like?
• How do they move?
• How do they dress?
• What is their idiolect (how they speak; the type of language they use)?
• What are their values and beliefs?
• Are we meant to feel sympathy for them?
• For each character you need to findat least two or three quotations that support what you think.

Post each character description on your blog.

Don't forget to keep on top of your reading of The Kite Runner too - some of you might need hankies at the ready. I strongly advise you keeping a log of the chapters you have read. Just a few sentences for each chapter as an overview - it will be very helpful when you return to the text for the exam. A good place to put those is on your blog and then they are all in one place.

All the best and happy reading!

Nina