‘Memories Of Places In Paris’ , Isabelle And Sophia

Question 1

Genre and mode

Answer 1

-Transcript of a spoken conversation.

Question 2

Text producer and text receiver

Answer 2

-Closed audience as they are speaking to each other.

Question 3

Variation, Register and Representation

Answer 3

-Informal register.

Question 4

Lexis and Semantics

Answer 4

-“Ponies that you could get rides on” fond childhood memories/bias gaze.
- Epistemic verb “could” shows endless opportunities.
-Semantic field of paradise “beautiful” “comfortable” “waterfalls” images of perfection contrasting a deprived experience.
-Personal deixis used frequently, between the personal pronouns “I” and “you” when addressing the implied listener.

Question 5

Grammar

Answer 5

-Grammatically simple as it is unplanned, through simple base adjectives “amazing” “beautiful”.
-Asyndetic list calls for empathy from listener “a grandma (.) the mother (.) a baby (.) a tiny baby crying”
-Use of colloquialisms “skive off”.

Question 6

Phonetics

Answer 6

-Fillers “um” represent the truthfulness of the text

Question 7

Graphology and Mode

Answer 7

-Spoken originally yet written down.

Question 8

Pragmatics

Answer 8

-Isabelle’s embodied knowledge and rich schema is demonstrated well in her confident speech.
-Sophia has the embodied knowledge of a tourist, represented in her travel narrative.

Question 9

Narrative and Discourse

Answer 9

-Isabelle has structured discourse due to use of temporal markers “later on” “after” adding chronology and shows the park has stayed in her life.
-Sophia uses endophoric storytelling.
-Isabelle uses exophoric storytelling.