Rick Steves’ Walking Tour Of The Lourve Museum

Question 1

Genre and mode

Answer 1

-Transcript of an audible tour guide.

Question 2

Text producer and text receiver

Answer 2

-Tourists at the Louvre.

Question 3

Variation, register and representation

Answer 3

-Formal.

Question 4

Lexis and semantics

Answer 4

-Lots of spatial deixis used “here” and “left” to show that the purpose of the text is to direct the audience on many different levels, both through historical information and literal orientation.
-Collective pronoun “we” makes a shared experience,
-Concise lexis provides audience with imagery.

Question 5

Grammar

Answer 5

-Repetition and replacement, syndetic listing “from” shows the various elements the Louvre has.
-Basic terminology for accessibility.

Question 6

Phonetics

Answer 6

-Intonation is used on certain words to portray Paris as ideal; abstract noun “beacon” therefore showing an emphasis on Paris as a central point for light, history and culture.

Question 7

Graphology and mode

Answer 7

-Maps are used in accordance with the podcast in order to further aid the tourist audience in navigating their way around the Louvre, thereby making the podcast also much more accessible.
-Typography to appeal to audience, uses a black bold font to convey a sense of imperative and declarative.

Question 8

Pragmatics

Answer 8

-Not a personal text, not all embodied knowledge but a script.
-Schema about art history is rich, however, increasing the tell ability of the text and its trustworthiness.
-Greek/Italian embodied knowledge to highlight the beauty of the Louvre.

Question 9

Narrative and discourse

Answer 9

-Used to structure the text and make it more accessible.
-Multi speaker interaction follows adjacency pair.
-Labov’s abstract starts by foregrounding the place, “the Louvre Museum” and the resolution foregrounds the next point of interest: “Venus de Milo”.