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SAC 1 Informal Discourse

SAC 1 Informal Discourse. Comparative Analysis. Analytical Commentary. SAC 1: Analytical Commentary What is it? Linguistic analysis. Articulate your understanding of what the text is, why is was written, its intentions and how it achieves this through linguistic features.

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SAC 1 Informal Discourse

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  1. SAC 1 Informal Discourse Comparative Analysis

  2. Analytical Commentary • SAC 1: Analytical Commentary • What is it? Linguistic analysis. • Articulate your understanding of what the text is, why is was written, its intentions and how it achieves this through linguistic features. • We will be assessing: You ability to demonstrate your knowledge on Register and Formality, Social Purpose, Sociolinguistics, Linguistic features relevant to the subsystems.

  3. How should you approach SAC 1 • Prepare your knowledge on: • Written Informal Discourse • Sociolinguistics- mode, locale, function, social purpose, audience/interlocutors, domain • Formality/Register • Understand how Lexical Choice, Syntactic Complexity and Discourse reflect the register and aim to achieve the social purpose of the text.

  4. Analytical Commentary Structure • This is not an essay therefore it does not need an introduction or a conclusion. In fact examiners have suggested that those students who do so, waste time and the depth of their for analysis suffers. • P1: Sociolinguistics – this will essentially set up and compare the texts function, purpose, register, audience, etc. This will allow you to set up your understanding of the text as a whole. Without sociolinguistics you analysis would simple be listing linguistic feature.

  5. Structure of Analytical Commentary • P2: Lexical Choice. This should compare each texts lexical choices. This can be anything from jargon, subject specific terms, colloquialisms, metaphors to basic word class functions. • ALWAYS LINK TO FORMALITY AND SOCIAL PURPOSE! • P3: Syntactic Complexity. Sentence Types and Sentence Structures and or fragments. How does this reflect the register and aid the social purpose. • Quite often this will lead back to sociolinguistics. Ie to achieve rapport, maintain authority, lessen social distance, indicate social distance, obfuscate etc.

  6. Analytical Commentary Structure • P4: Discourse Analysis. Aim to look at 2 areas here. The broad structure of the discourse that aim to create cohesion and then the discourse features within the text that create coherence. • Structure; headings, subheadings, dot points, paragraphing, logical sequencing of ideas. How does this create cohesion? How can we link cohesion to social purpose and formality? • Discourse Features: Discourse markers, building off of prior information, new information through topic sentences. This creates coherence (ability to be understood). How does this achieve social purpose?

  7. In the SAC • 1. Read the texts. Choose 2 to compare. • 2. Reread the texts and annotate for: Sociolinguistics and Formality. Lexical Choice, Syntax and Discourse. • If you can create a mini plan that is great but also use your annotations as a guide. • Stick to the structure given to you. Remember this is a comparative analytical commentary. Compare formality and social purpose in two texts. The texts will be similar in context.

  8. PRAC: • You have been given 4 articles to read and annotate. These concern linguistic issues facing society today. • They serve two purposes here. 1. For use in an analytical commentary. 2. For use in your essays in unit 4 where contemporary linguistic theory needs to be drawn on. • Lets analyse Article 1 together and create a plan.

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