‘Dem Bones’ From Not For Parents: Paris Everything You Ever Wanted To Know

Question 1

Genre and mode

Answer 1

-Illustrated children’s guidebook to Paris.

Question 2

Text producer and text receiver

Answer 2

-Young children with an invisible audience of parents.

Question 3

Variation, register and representation

Answer 3

-Informal with factual elements.

Question 4

Lexis and semantics

Answer 4

-Asyndetic listing used to challenge the aspect of Paris we do not associate ourselves with.
-Noun phrase “tourists and spies” engaging the children as they will feel obliged to act like ‘spies’.
-Semantic field of horror “creepy” “bones” “ghostly”.

Question 5

Grammar

Answer 5

-Noun “spies” ensures to the children that they are people who want to discover things.

Question 6

Phonetics

Answer 6

-Monosyllabic words “bad smells” shows how words are simple and easy to understand.

Question 7

Graphology and mode

Answer 7

-Dark colours to add a rebellious feel and connotes how the text is arguably aimed more towards boys.

Question 8

Pragmatics

Answer 8

-Embodied knowledge and rich schema surrounding tourist destinations in Paris.

Question 9

Narrative and discourse

Answer 9

-Written from an omniscient narrator with simplified discourse that is suitable for children.