Dr Robert Winsor

When watching the video I was surprised to find out that Zack who was 15 months was using a different part of the brain when learning a foreign language as their second language, compared to an adult learning a second foreign language.

When there is a new born there larynx is too high up and this allows the child to suckle and breathe at the same time, when the child grows to about a year old the larynx drops 3cm. This allows the voice box to have more space at the back of the child’s throat. What I also found fascinating was that it takes 30 muscles to produce one recognisable word, using these muscles outweighs the child from chocking.

Moira was 2 and a half years old and she was learning up to 10 new words a day which is Vygotsky theory, the video described a child this ages as a sponge soaking up new words.

Recipe 1700's

 

The purpose of this text is to inform and instruct the reader, as the mode is a recipe. The register is formal and the audience would be a woman as stereotypically women only cooked during this time period in the 1700's. We can tell this recipe is old as is uses the extended S like in the word 'salt' which is an archaic feature and is not really used anymore. The word mutchkin has a

Broken homes article

I do agree with the article that a infants brains can be affected if they come from a broken home or dysfunctional family. I think how you are brought up plays a major part in your life and education, if you aren't brought up in a stereotypical normal family then I can see why it could affect infants brains as they are influenced by they're parents, for example living with a male could affect the way you speak and living with just a female could also. Having issues at homes such as arguments can affect you as taboo language can be used and from a young age you could think swearing was appropriate and normal.


The purpose of the text is to inform the reader about this issue affecting infants. The register is formal as this is a serious matter, we can tell this because the mode is a newspaper article and the graphology is plain and simple showing that it is formal.

Language and gender research

Sara Mills is a feminist linguist. One of her books called 'Language and Gender: Interdisciplinary Perspectives' looks at the important themes in the debates on the relationship of language and gender. It analyses this relationship across a range of different disciplinary perspectives from linguistics, literary theory, cultural studies and visual analysis. The focus of the book goes beyond an analysis of women's language it also talks about lesbian poetics, the language of girls and boys and the relationship between gender and genre.



Deborah Cameron wrote the book Verbal Hygiene (The politics of language). In the book which she wrote Deborah explores popular attitudes towards language and examines the practices which people attempt to regularly use it. She also argues that popular discourse about language values serves a function for those who use it.

Muriel Schulz in 1975 came up with the term of semantic deterioration. She said that there was 2 categories called derogation and deterioration. Derogation is a negative meaning or connotation that some lexical items have attached themselves too. Deterioration is the process which negative connotations become attached to lexical items.

Etymology

Spinster; The first time this word was recorded to be used, this was in 1362 ''A woman (or, rarely, a man) who spins, esp. one who practises spinning as a regular occupation.'' The origin of the word is Anglo Saxon and Old English. In todays times the word now means '' A woman still unmarried; esp. one beyond the usual age for marriage, an old maid.''


Bachelor; The first time this word was recorded to be used, this was in 1297 ''A young knight, not old enough, or having too few vassals, to display his own banner, and who therefore followed the banner of another; a novice in arms.''  The origin of this word is Europe Middle Ages.

Language and Power

The purpose of this text is to tell audiences taking the exam the rules. The top sentence is in bold to indicates authority and power that the dates cannot be changed. The word ‘must’ is in bold so that it stands out and shows power, this word is a modal verb and it is used to show certainty. The words ‘Warning to Candidates’ is in a bigger font so any one who is a candidate knows that this piece of texted is directed to them.

 The numbers on the sides show that it is organised and also makes it easier to read because you know that it is in order, the bullet points also show organisation. There are many graphological features to seperature the text and make it less boring they show pictures of mobile phones and bags to indicate you are not allowed these in the exam, as this text is aimed at students taking the exam and they may not read it when there is a large boring chunk of text so using images.

There are many impreritive sentences used in this piece of text for example ‘you must not become involved in any unfair or dishonest practise in any part of the examation’ this sentences tells the reader a command and then goes to explain other rules after this sentence.

The larger text in bold is placed at the bottom to let the 2nd audience know that they need to placed around the school or building to make people aware.

Questionnaire

Anaylysis of questionnaire;
For question one everyone participating responded that they had an Essex accent, as I mainly asked my friends and they happened to have always lived in Essex. Question two also had the same answer ticked on each sheet, I asked a few people why they chose the first box and they said because they saw the words 'Queens English' so they knew that it would be the more professional accents as the other accents may be too heard for people to understand if you are not from the same region. The response to this question was even, 5 people said yes 5 people said no a few of their reasons for this was because of times when they would call companies and they would not be able to understand what the person is saying because of their accent, this would then lead to frustration because they couldn't get the information they needed and felt it was too rude to ask to speak to someone else. Working class was the most chosen answer for question 4, I felt like this was chosen because stereotypically Essex accents are associated with plumbers and building and they are working class jobs. Because everyone who took the questionnaire had an Essex accent there answers to the next question was working class. For question 6 there was mixed responses 3 people said it shouldn't affect if you get a job or not but 7 people said it could affect whether you get a job because depending on which region you are in some people may not understand you, the example given by many people was working on customer service if a employer doesn't understand you a customer most probably wont either.