Personal Narrative: Anna

Question 1

Genre and Mode

Answer 1

-Transcript of a spoken conversation.

Question 2

Text Producer and Text Receiver

Answer 2

-Closed audience - people living/learning about Paris.

Question 3

Variation, Register, Representation

Answer 3

-Informal register.

Question 4

Lexis and Semantics

Answer 4

-Voiced hesitation “erm” - fillers “so” used to give herself thinking time/contemplate how she wants to represent Paris.
-Voiced hesitation over silence to emphasises enthusiasm.
-Hedges “sort of” makes the cities differences seem less bad.
-Personal deixis “I” shows that this is a personal narrative.

Question 5

Grammar

Answer 5

-Micropauses randomly used in speech so making the text seem rushed and awkward.
-Simple grammar because of the spontaneous nature of the spoken mode.
-Some phrases are repeated “I miss, I miss”

Question 6

Phonetics

Answer 6

-Prosodic stress to show enthusiasm.
-Shows the strong emotive impact that places in Paris have on visitors even after visiting many times.
-Intensifier “so nicely presented” adds a persuasive aspect to the text but that is not the purpose.

Question 7

Graphology and Mode

Answer 7

-Spoken mode.

Question 8

Pragmatics

Answer 8

-Repetition “I like that” personal opinion is focus, personal text, not expected to be seen by others.
-Exhibits a high level of embodied knowledge through modal lexical verbs such as “love”.
-Schema is also impressive, showing different aspects of Paris such as architecture, food and fashion.

Question 9

Narrative and Discourse

Answer 9

-First person narrative.
-Voiced hesitation throughout “erm” “but anyway” shows her attempt to frame her narrative by topic managing and staying focuses on the task and areas of discussion that have been set for her.
-Sometimes goes off on a tangent and these discourse markers help to bring her back.
-Nostalgia when shift of experiences.