Question 1, 2 and 3 Structure and Patterns

Question 1

What is the structure for Question 1 and 2?

Answer 1

Who: is being represented?
What: are they being represented as?
How: does the writer/speaker achieve it?
Why: does the writer/speaker provide these M+R? (GCAP)

Question 2

What is what (or who) and examples?

Answer 2

What (or who) is being represented?
(3 or 4 things)
e.g. the subject of the text, the text producer, a person, event or place, a culture, the publisher (e.g. the newspaper).

Question 3

What is how and question?

Answer 3

How is language used to represent this thing (or person)?
What specific uses of language has the author used to represent this?

Question 4

What is why and examples?

Answer 4

Why has language been used - for what meaning and what contextual factors?
GCAP
e.g. genre, context (social, cultural, journalistic) audience, purpose, time (question 2, only).

Question 5

What are ten possible patterns in Text A and Text B To Look Out For?

Answer 5

1. Interrogative or imperative functions.
2. Prominent word classes - material verbs, abstract nouns, premodifying adjectives.
3. Pronoun usage - first person singular or plural, second person.
4. Modal auxiliary verbs - deontic or epistemic.
5. Contrasts in levels of formality.
6. Passive voice constructions.
7. Non-standard forms.
8. Idiomatic expressions.
9. Figurative phrases.
10. Rhetorical devices.

Question 6

What is the Question 1 and the Question 2 Structure template?

Answer 6

Within the text, (thing being represented) is represented as (adjective). This is being done through the use of (language feature), for example “QUOTE”. This is significant because… (link to context).