commentary of article

Commentary on article.

While writing the my article for the metro, there was a number of things I had to do to make it seem very realistic and believable that I was a 50 year old man had wrote this .Firstly I wrote in a standard English register to appeal to my audience and as I this is what my dad would normally speak in with the odd bit of taboo language. I picked to do this article in the metro as I believe that it was the most fitting for this type of restaurant as the restaurant was in London and the metro is for the readers of London. I used grapholgical features such as pictures of the food served and pictures of the actual restaurant to entice readers. The purpose of my text was to inform as well as advice and entertain due to comical features in my text. In the first few paragraphs it was quite off the subject of reviewing the restaurant, it was more around the subject of turning 50 and the associations with being 50 and I decided to talk about this as the reason why we were going out for a meal was for my dad’s 50^th birthday. I decided to waffle for the first few paragraphs to set the scene and comfort readers in to the article, also to entertain. I started off by using a quotation of what my dad said to really make it seem that he said it.

asymmetrical conversations

1) Someone with equal power as me
Louise: Hey lul ,
Lauren: Wassapening G
Louise: (Laughs) Whats up homie
Lauren: Ok stop talking gangster , have you done the work for art girl ?
Louise: Shit.. i aint done it!
Lauren: Manz is gonna get slapped up by miss!
Louise: Shutup

2) Someone with less power than me
Lauren: Move out my way!
Year 7: Okay miss
Lauren: No its mam'
Year 7: Okay mam'
Lauren: Thats what i thought weasel , now give me your lunch money , NOW!
Year 7: Okay mam'
Lauren: Mwhahahah
Year 7: (runs away crying)

3) Someone with more power than me
Miss Beckett:Lauren you are very behind on your work
Lauren: I know
Miss Beckett :So you know you are?
Lauren: Well , erm
Miss Beckett: Enough nonsence , you need to get it together girl
Lauren: Okay Miss
Miss Beckett: Okay Miss Beckett
Lauren: Okay Miss Beckett
Miss Beckett: Thats enough now , get on with it!

Grouping task

My first grouping of texts is A and C , i have put these two texts in a group as i beleive there are liguistic reasons for their similarities.Graphalogically they are similar because both texts use coulour to entise the reader because both texts are seen physically , text A is seen in a magazine and text C is seen in a flyer sent by post so it is crucial they look synthetically pleasing.Also these texts both show that they are aimed at the same audience , adults , as text A say 'your kids' and text C is obviously aimed at adults because it is a flyer sent to home owners and the text talks about improving the home.Also it is similar for the fact they are both informative texts , although text A is more the purpose of warning readers and text C the purpose is more for the advertising to readers.Text A is in somewhat ways horrific as the word 'road' is like as if it is written in blood by a child to scare parents also it is evident that this is a warning text as the word 'if' is used at the begining of the text to show that it is conditional , so its saying 'if you do this ... this will happen' , this is done to really concern the readers in the hope they will take action.In text C imperatives are used to really convince customers to want to use ikea's services with words such as sit,lay,roll ... these are all used to make ikeas services sound more appealing.The register of both texts is standard english as these are texts that are presented on flyers and advertisements it needs to be understandable to succesefully inform readers.

My second grouping of texts is text B and text F , i have picked these two texts becaus i beleive there are a range of similiar linguistic methods used which i can identify.Simiarly the grammar is very a-like because both texts use short sentences , also the discourse structure is very similar because they are conversations with not much purpose but text B involves more questions.The register of both of the texts is spoken english because both texts are converations but text B is more formal due to the characters within the text , text F is between a mother and son so it is more personal and a very casual chat where as text B is quite formal due to words such as 'sir' which gives the impression that Balwick has a higher level of higherarchy as he is called 'sir' by Blackladder.Both texts are also similar because neither texts have much purpose other than to entertain.There are many similarities but there are some differences , text B is a actual script from a television series and text F is just a transcript with a conversation between a mother and her son. Both texts use phonology but use it in different ways , text F would say (laughs)  where as text B would use stage directions such as "thats the scratching noise".