‘Paris Riots 1968’ , British Pathé

Question 1

Genre and mode

Answer 1

-Report of a televised account.

Question 2

Text producer and text receiver

Answer 2

-Those with a specialised interest into the Paris Riots.

Question 3

Variation, register and representation

Answer 3

-Formal.

Question 4

Lexis and semantics

Answer 4

-“Chaos ruled the streets” personification followed by a pointed pause denotes a city where authorities are no longer in control.
-Semantic field of war “battleground” “militant” “blitz” shows the riots to be on the same scale as military conflict.
-Anarchic image is created where “housewives hunted for food” juxtaposition of the typical female domestic role of the housewives and the male hunter.
-An extended metaphor of “water” is used to represent the mutability of the riots as well as the fragile social tension.

Question 5

Grammar

Answer 5

-Parallelism is used to craft tension.
-“citizens from every walk of life from every class” the repetition of the intensifier “every” emphasises how quickly the riots captured the popular imagination.

Question 6

Phonetics

Question 7

Graphology and Mode

Answer 7

-The video means that visuals to the horrors can be given making it a more compelling news report.
-Sound effects also add reliability and trustworthiness to the text.

Question 8

Pragmatics

Answer 8

-The embodied knowledge can be seen as falsified and exaggerated to make a compelling report.
-The schema is extremely strong and politically informed.

Question 9

Narrative and discourse

Answer 9

-Several temporal marker used “On the day” “during this terrible night” putting events into clear chronological order and signposting the speed of the event.
-The use of the present tense towards the end adds a sense of immediacy to events and reminds us contemporary readers that this text was produced at a fraught time in the midst of the action.