‘Visiting Paris’ , Mike And Sophia

Question 1

Genre and mode

Answer 1

-Transcript of a spoken conversation.

Question 2

Text producer and text receiver

Answer 2

-Well travelled tourists looking for a realistic perception of Paris.

Question 3

Variation, register and representation

Answer 3

-Informal register.

Question 4

Lexis and semantics

Answer 4

-Intensifiers “about two hours to actually get…” shows Mikes frustration with wait times.
-Lots of base adjectives used “brilliant” which present opinions on Paris, but also show that neither of the speakers have a deep embodied knowledge.
-“quite romantic” cliched stereotype of Paris. Mike uses plural pronouns “they” “someone” to go against the stereotype.

Question 5

Grammar

Answer 5

-Repetition “freezing, absolutely freezing” shows Mikes self pity.
-Many modal lexical verbs such as “felt” and “thought” to show that the text is highly opinionated.

Question 6

Phonetics

Answer 6

-Sibilance “selfie stick” “dress so smartly”.
-((laughter)) paralinguistic feature adds colloquialism and humour.

Question 7

Graphology and mode

Answer 7

-Spoken mode.

Question 8

Pragmatics

Answer 8

-Differing levels of embodied knowledge are shown, with Mike being more informed and Sophia having a weaker schema.
-Prosodic stress.

Question 9

Narrative and discourse

Answer 9

-Repeated fillers “erm” conscious of their speech.
-Simultaneous speech engagement in the conversation.
-Grice’s maxims as they’re attentively listening to each other.
False starts “its got (.) its got bulletproof glass” shows Sophia’s thought process. Sophia asks more questions than Mike perhaps showing that she has more experience.