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Language and Social Contexts (Routledge A Level English Guides) ISBN: 0415286298 ISBN13: 9780415286299 Language and Social Contexts (Routledge A Level English Guides) By: Amanda Coultas Publisher: Routledge Format: Paperback Our Price: 10.99

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Language and Social Contexts: explores how social contexts affect language use, enabling students to see how context has a direct effect on how texts are written, read and understood. Key Features: covers the key skills and topics, including the importance of social contexts, transcripts and live data, representation, power, gender and regional dialect analyses a wide variety of spoken and written texts, from conversations and text messages to wedding invitations, road signs, police warnings and advertisements offers a step-by-step guide to approaching texts and data and suggestions for structuring a response can be used as both a course text and a revision tool.


Contents:

Preface Assessment objectives 1

Social Contexts and Conventions Context Social Contexts Socialisation Right and Wrong/Appropriate and Inappropriate Formality Social Contexts and Speech 2

Transcripts and the Contexts of Speech 'Real' Conversation/Live Data Analysing Talk Transcripts The Importance of Contextual Information 3

Representation Representation of Older People Representation of Teenagers Representation of Young Children Research Statement The Role of Research Published Research Your own Research and Ideas 4

Power Power as a Topic Power and Domination Grice's Maxims What do we mean by 'Language and Power'? Socially Recognised Positions of Power Language and Manipulation Language, Standards and Power Non-standard language and Power 5

Identity: Gender Ways of Approaching 'Gender' as a Topic Talk Some Key Ideas from Research Use of Research ideas Representation/Stereotypes The Importance of Context 6

Identity: Regional Talk What do we mean by 'Regional Talk'? Dialects and Boundaries Studying Regional Talk Representing Regional Talk Regional Talk and Identity Attitudes to Regional Talk Further Reading Glossary Suggestions for Answers


Brief Description:

Explores how social contexts affect language use, based around the skills specified in the assessment objectives for AS and A2 Level English.

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