The Sweet Life In Paris: Delicious Adventures In The World’s Most Glorious And Perplexing City

Question 1

Genre and mode

Answer 1

-Travel memoir and autobiography.

Question 2

Text producer and text receiver

Answer 2

-Adult tourists.

Question 3

Variation, register and representation

Answer 3

-Semi formal and colloquial.

Question 4

Lexis and semantics

Answer 4

-Inclusive pronouns “our” and “we” indicates target audience is Parisians.
-Semantic field of small amounts to show how little water is available.
-Adverbials show the negative French attitude of the provision of water at meal times.
-Humour and hyperbole to emphasises the way the writer attempts to mimic the French.
-Onomatopoeia “Yuck!” less sophisticated than some formal texts.

Question 5

Grammar

Answer 5

-Active voice is personal and relates to audience.
-Pre modification is simplistic and gets to the point.

Question 6

Phonetics

Answer 6

-Alliteration used to mock and question why water is not drunk more “tiny trickle”.
-Sibilance “gross” emphasises the mockery.

Question 7

Graphology and mode

Answer 7

-Bold graphological feature for the title to draw attention to the subject “water, water everywhere but you cannot have any”.
-Used in the recipes provided at the end of each chapter, therefore acting as a structural device to punctuate the separate topics of each chapter.

Question 8

Pragmatics

Answer 8

-French lexis used to give his memoir credibility and links to context of the account.
-Embodied knowledge is strong as it is written from a first person experience.
-Schema is portrayed through scientific facts about Paris’ water issue.

Question 9

Narrative and discourse

Answer 9

-Casual and crafted structure, the discourse markers show a topic shift.
-Has a very anecdotal structure and emphasises his argument.
-Each paragraph links to the idea of water in different forms although one main focus it is still dynamic in terms of theme.