‘What Do You Wish Someone Had Told You - Paris Île De France’

Question 1

Genre and mode

Answer 1

-Blog post.
-Online forum.

Question 2

Text producer & text receiver

Answer 2

-Potential visitors to Paris who want advice with access to the internet.

Question 3

Variation, register & representation

Answer 3

-Informal, helpful, brief, spontaneous.

Question 4

Lexis and semantics

Answer 4

-Semantic field of concrete nouns that relate to place “kiosk” showing that the text is opinionated overall and less focused on feelings.
-Abstract nouns “loved” “guess” create a more experienced tone.
-French lexis “bonjour madame or monsieur” more informal in comparison to other texts.

Question 5

Grammar

Answer 5

-“wow,,” unconventional use of punctuation makes the text receiver question the reliability of the text producer.
-Parenthesis “(they think its weird here)” used heavily to add extra information linking to the purpose being to inform.
-Declarative “I loved my day there” purpose to inform the text receiver and express personal opinions, views and experiences.

Question 6

Phonetics

Answer 6

-None to note.

Question 7

Graphology and mode

Answer 7

-Recognisable green banner of Trip Advisor.
-Navigation bar linking to the genre of an online forum.
-Reply button creates an opportunity to become a dialogue.
-“re: responding to previous post” linking to the forum genre.

Question 8

Pragmatics

Answer 8

-Embodied knowledge is presented in a very unique way, with very unique events that distinguish this text as a very truthful representation of Paris.

Question 9

Narrative and discourse

Answer 9

-Extremely casual.
-“wow” an ambiguous opening that foregrounds and foreshadows how the text is not at all planned and structures coherently.
-“ignore ignore ignore” epizeuxis.