English Language

Subject is the Refugees crisis Aritcle 1- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-34356758 Article 2- http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-184828/Refugees-drain-UK-think-young.html Both articles use a lot of statistics to embed their point and create a debate about the crisis. They also show the crisis in the viewpoint of more than one age’s group, e.g. in article 2 there is a bigger focus on teenagers. Whereas in article 1 focuses on the overall view of the conflict, and is not specific.   The articles include rhetorical questions and quotes, that will prove there point and create a more detailed analysis of the subject. The article may deliberately written to make you feel the same way as the writer, the writer may try to change your view with persuasive language.                                  ...

Do u rekon tht languages have changed tht much? LOL Language has changed very drastically and rapidly over the past decade, not only in the UK but in every single continent. One of the main reasons for this could be the overuse of the internet and social media, or could it be that people are just too lazy? Or have the majority of people just got too use to their “slanguage?" With language changing as quickly as ever, it’s not surprising that it’s not only the British population let alone the rest of the word will understand these now slang terms and their meanings. Although there are still elements of "ancient" language that can be tracked back to Shakespearian times, this has not affected the rate and extent to which language has changed over the years. It is mainly acronyms of long lexis’s phrases that cause the mixed emotions to occur, from mainly parents and teachers. The obvious reason for this lack of proper English is without a doubt social media. ...

One of the main relationships that is by far the most obvious, is the number of food related texts that were identified. The majority of the texts that were discovered shared a lexical field of food, being either completely food based or had some reference to it. All of the slogans were short and snappy, for example; 'every little helps' from Tesco's or 'Taste the rainbow' from Skittles. This is deliberately done so that we as an audience or "target market" will remember it, and be much more inclining to purchase the product. The overall purpose of these mix-mode texts are to not only remind you and inform you about the product but to also try and make a connection with you. This doesn't mean that they specifically want to make a connection with one person, but a group of people, a "target audience". If you don’t feel like you have a connection with the advert when you are watching it, then you probably aren't the group of people who t...

Firstly I noticed that the majority of the words listed were adjectives(describing words), For example "groovy", "amazing", "lush" etc. Also that the majority of the adjectives were liked. However the majority of words over all were surprisingly negative, this could be due to a number of influential factors. For example the mood of the participants could greatly effect what they choose and why. For example they may have chosen a negative word as their like word because of a person experience etc. The number words that people described and associated with being negative, majorly outweighed the positives. Words that "shift in meaning tended to be dislike, such as "literally" or "like". For example the definition of "like" is having the same characteristics or qualities as; similar to. Though the meaning is very similar to how it is used now, its is over used and miss used. The same goes for "sweat", normally it w...