Personal Narrative: Zara

Question 1

Genre and Mode

Answer 1

-Transcript of a spoken conversation.

Question 2

Text Producer and Text Receiver

Answer 2

-Closed audience.
-People who are interested in Parisian culture or want to live there.

Question 3

Variation, Register, Representation

Answer 3

-Informal register.

Question 4

Lexis and Semantics

Answer 4

-Intensifiers “very” “many” “really” tries to compel the audience and strengthen the meaning behind what she’s saying.
-Second person prenominative form “you” engages reader, direct address, colloquial. Builds a connection between the speaker and listener.
-Positive premodifiers “big famous” “massive” “historical” when describing art.
-High frequency lexis through her repetition “really” “very” links to register, mode and her childlike memories.

Question 5

Grammar

Answer 5

-Lots of declaratives to show her own subjective opinions.
-Incorrect grammar “art good”, uncertainty perhaps uncomfortable due to lack of knowledge compared to her mom.
-Short simple sentences which symbolise her lack of knowledge and spontaneousness.

Question 6

Phonetics

Answer 6

-Prosodic stress to show enthusiasm “SO amazing” shows the strong emotive impact Paris has.
-Gives the text a persuasive aspect but is not the purpose.

Question 7

Graphology and Mode

Answer 7

-Spoken mode.

Question 8

Pragmatics

Answer 8

-Zara’s embodied knowledge is not as strong as her mothers, though she has a very opinionated narrative on fashion.
-Her schema is rich in certain areas rather than overall.

Question 9

Narrative and Discourse

Answer 9

-Continuous utterance to show hesitation.
-Some discourse marker to mark topic shifts “but” “and” but sometimes isn’t direct and completely breaks off what she’s saying “um”.
-Very colloquial, showing the spoken mode is completely uninfluenced by external sources.