6.2 Andrew Viner: When I lived in Peru Flashcards
Genre
drama
Mode
extract from radio drama
Audience
fans of Viner and radio dramas
- Radio 4 is aimed at educated and intellectual listeners
Purpose
to entertain through humour
“I guess the differences between us could be highlighted by our respective attitudes to our careers”
first person - self obsession
- colloquial “i guess”
“You wanted to see me, Julian?”
interrogative
- uncertainty
- pronouns
- first name basis, informal
“If it’s about those bugs, we’ll have a new version out next week”
pronoun
- collective blame, not just him
- oblivious
“You’ve been here for ten years now, right?”
interrogative
- tag question to drive the conversation forward
“But I loved my job”
fronted connection
- past tense, already accepted his fate
- emotional
“That’s what I loved”
pragmatic humour
- ironic
- sarcasm and genuine opinion, comedic
“So that was my career down the toilet”
idiom/metaphor
- amusing for the audience
“Congratulations!”
exclamatory
- happy for Claire
- genuine
“It’s just an acting promotion while they organise after the redundancies”
pronouns
- modest
- implies her importance
- ironic, benefitting from a redundancy
“London said they’d wait for me”
personification/metaphor
- proper noun
“What about the stubble and drool every morning?”
self deprecating
- not suave or sophisticated
