‘Paris: Fine French Food’ , Lonely Planet Travel Video Flashcards
Genre and mode
-Video travel guide.
Text producer and text receiver
-Adult tourists with internet access.
Variation, register and representation
-Formal.
Lexis and semantics
-Hyperbolic language is used throughout to market the city viewers.
-Paris is hailed as “the most gastronomic country in the world” setting Paris apart from other places. Use of the superlative pre modifying adjective supports.
-Semantic field of sophisticated “viticultural” reflects the food culture.
-Intensifiers and evaluative adjectives to give a grand and welcoming feeling to Paris.
Grammar
-Complex utterances are often used to show the scope of French cuisine.
-“The restaurant comes in money guises and price ranges” the use of the syndetic pair shows the available options and that the city can provide for all.
-Complex words are used “gastronomic” “flamboyant” showing a sophisticated register.
Phonetics
-Prosodic stress and the size of the most positive language such as the adjective “expert” to describe the chefs techniques or the intensifier “very” in the final line.
-Intonation is used especially to mirror the strength of their love for Parisian food and wine.
-Plosive phonetics used in “culinary centre” to gain foreground.
Graphology and mode
-Mixed mode.
-In the opening, elements of graphology are used where larger text is used to write “Paris” compared to the subtitle of “Fine French Food”.
Pragmatics
-Embodied knowledge is not present as it is a generalised perspective of Parisian culture, not a personal account.
-Schema is very rich and shown through statistics.
Narrative and discourse
-Narrator is male with an antipodean accent.
-The narrator makes the link between food and the wider culture of hospitality in Paris.
-Final sequence of verbs used the passive voice suggesting a passionate interest in theory is all tourists need to relax.
