‘Travelling To Paris With A Grandchild’ , Gransent Forum

Question 1

Genre and mode

Answer 1

-Online travel forum.

Question 2

Text producer and text receiver

Answer 2

-Open audience as it is on an open online site.
-Closed audience as it is on a site tailored towards grandparents.

Question 3

Variation, register, representation

Answer 3

-Semi formal.

Question 4

Lexis and semantics

Answer 4

-Lots of deixis used.
-Personal pronouns such as “I” “ you” “we” as it is discussing personal experiences with other people.
-Spatial deixis such as “around”, “top” to show that the conversation is ongoing.

Question 5

Grammar

Answer 5

-Overall very sophisticated considering the genre.
-Only one colloquialism is used “touristy”.
-Minor sentences often join together the subject as there is little point in the particular writer reiterating that they are talking about themselves in an informal setting.

Question 6

Phonetics

Question 7

Graphology and mode

Answer 7

-Written mode.
-Use of emojis, name tags and colours make the website more aesthetic, but also effective as the older generation generally have more trouble navigating online forums.

Question 8

Pragmatics

Answer 8

-Each text producer offers a different perspective, and since it is a forum, the information shared us often obscure from a small aspect of embodied knowledge.
-The schema is rich because of the many contributors.

Question 9

Narrative and discourse

Answer 9

-Language is relatively sophisticated despite its genre indicating that it would be colloquial.
-Informality is shown in the use of emojis as well as the anecdotal tone.