language analysis 2012

Preparing For The Unit 3&4

English Exam -

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It’s getting to the serious end of things...

Persuasive words / phrases

• No labels

• Just persuasive words and phrases

Gillard’s attack on Abbott

Analyse Word / Phrase• When [name of

person]

• When the author

• When speaker

• When the writer

• says....[insert word or phrase]...

• uses the word....

• Uses the phrase....[insert word or phrase]...

• exclaims....[insert word or phrase]...

• describes... as....[insert word or phrase]...

• attacks...as....[insert word or phrase]...

• this suggests to us...

• makes us feel...

• creates the association for us...

• makes us visualise / imagine / picture....

• Consequently...

• Because of this...

• We then think....

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Language Analysis

Skills vs. Knowledge

Language Analysis

• 10-15 minutes of practice every 1-3 days will make more impact than ‘cramming’ in SWOT Vac.

Task & Background

Task & Background

Headlines you’re unlikely to see

The Contention

The Tone

• Emotive?

• Logical?

Gillard’s attack on Abbott

Purpose of tone

• Through the use of...the author establishes a.....and....tone that seeks to position the reader to feel that....

What’s the link?2010: “students who attempted to work laboriously through every sentence found the task difficult. Students needed to choose which parts of the material they would use to explore the way in which language was being used.”

2010: “Some responses were just simple summaries or lists of the techniques used, with little development. These pieces did not score well as they did not fulfil the task.”

2011: In stronger responses, strategic selection, together with well-developed précis skills, allowed students to demonstrate their language analysis skills.

Select

Don’t Label

• Appealing to the readers sense of social justice, Lee reminds the audience why biological diversity is ‘so important’ in protecting the living standards of the ‘poor’. Highlighting how reduced genetic variation and increased biological similarity within ecosystems will impinge upon ‘food security’, ‘nutrition’ and the health of the ‘rural poor’ in exacerbating ‘extreme poverty’, Lee asserts that it is our humanitarian duty to ensure that such injustice is not inflected upon our fellow human beings. Metaphorically presenting ‘us’ Westerners as the ‘powerful economic giant’ and callous ‘affluent hunters’ ‘subordinating’ the interests of the poor to pursue personal wealth and ravish the environment, Lee urges us to ‘hunt less, gather less and preserve more before it is too late’, effectively summarizing the crux of his argument into a useful repetition of metaphor. By evoking imagery in the reader with ‘us’ – the affluent, greedy giant, insatiably destroying habitats and marginalising the livelihood of the third world, the reader’s sense of justice and righteousness is inflamed to urge compliance to Lee’s contention.

Visual

• Our focus is captured by the visual when / at...

• Draws attention to the idea...

• Re-inforces the point that...

• Supports the contention / argument that...

2010 Picture

• Studying for Language Analysis needs to be about more than just writing whole practice pieces and memorising the names of techniques

How To Study

Language Analysis

• Practice reading and thinking

• Just focus on single words and phrases

• Just focus on visual

• Just focus on tone (emotive vs. logical)

• Just focus on selecting/planning a response

• Practice a whole response only when you’ve worked on different individual skills 2-3 times

• Have a study goal per week

• Have a study goal per study session

• Discuss different options for achieving these goals

Effective study

Thank you...