‘Ten Things My Kids Say They Will Miss About Paris’ From Just Another American In Paris

Question 1

Genre and mode

Answer 1

-Informative blog.

Question 2

Text producer and text receiver

Answer 2

-Closed audience of parents and travellers.

Question 3

Variation, register and representation

Answer 3

-Informal, conversational and personal

Question 4

Lexis and semantics

Answer 4

-Lexical field of French cuisine “bread bread bread”
-“Rough life huh?” rhetorical question adds humour.
-Simple syndetic list to entice all readers.
-Humorous language/idioms/similie “and its a bit like pulling teeth” parent trying to be relatable to all readers who have experienced parenthood.
-Proper nouns “Champs Elysees” “L’Entrecote” shows knowledge of Paris despite being children.

Question 5

Grammar

Answer 5

-Not highly complex language, showing that Anne is providing real, truthful accounts of her experiences in Paris.
-Syndetic list “bread, bread, bread” shows a love for food and staple Parisian culture, childish dialect.

Question 6

Phonetics

Question 7

Graphology and mode

Answer 7

-Formal font for the title to show it is a reliable source.
-Landmark focus on picture of the Arc de Triumph.
-Picture of a bakery to embody the focus of the text.

Question 8

Pragmatics

Answer 8

-Anne’s narrative centres around her embodied knowledge providing highly personal anecdotes.
-Strong schema is presented about different and specific topics.

Question 9

Narrative and discourse

Answer 9

-Initially spoken yet adapted for the discourse of the text.
-Anne is casual when speaking about her experiences in Paris, yet she also plans her narrative so that it is focused and poignant.