Thursday 27 April 2017

Frameworks

Frameworks:


Lexis:
  • Lexis
  • HFL, LFL (High frequency/Low Frequency)
  • Formal/Informal register.
  • Tone (specialist audience)
  • Jargon
  • Lexical f
  • Fields (semantic field)
  • Expectations
  • Sociolect: Language associated with a certain group
  • Adjective/verb/noun etc. (Identify the word)

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Grammar:

  • Structure
  • Sentences (Complex, simple, compound)
  • Complex syntax has a main clause and a subordinate clause.
  • Subordinate clauses depend on the main clause.
  • Compound sentences are two main clauses joined by an "and" or a "but".
  • Minor syntax: one word.
  • Sentence types: Imperative, Declarative, Explanative, Interrogative.
  • Tenses change the structure of words.
  • Present simple: factual.
  • Disguises opinion as fact.
  • Morphology: how words are structured (i.e. Home + Less = Homeless. Noun into adjective)
  • Universal prefixes and suffixes, i.e add "un" to an adjective (i.e helpful becomes unhelpful)
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Graphology

  • Font
  • Imagery and size of Imagery
  • How does it look?
  • Name
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