Lexis
- Modal Verb – ‘should’ - Raises the question on topic matter, which initiates debate for individuals to address their opinion.
- Premodifying verb – ‘little holiday’ its purpose is to try and downsized the issue of taking children out of term time.
- Adverb – ‘definitely not’ showing certainty and strong opinions.
- · Adverb – ‘still’ showing that by taking a holiday in term time will not affect the outcome of grades ‘I still achieved 2As and 9Bs in GCSES’.
Grammar- At the beginning of the forum a interrogative syntax is used to question the viewers on their opinions ‘have your say’ builds relationship with readers.
- Most comments hold no coherent structure with mainly simple syntaxes, either declarative or exclamative.
- Punctuation – expressing their opinions using ‘!’ possibly highlighting their frustration
Discourse markers
- Names of the different twitter accounts- showing their different opinions – most likely are mothers/parents who are looking to go on holiday.
- ‘ITV’ – Showing the thread of the media platform – suggesting controversial debate?
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Layout of the forum (Twitter) makes it a lot more accessible and easier to
express opinion, it also allows people to comments back to one another: which
again creates more of a debate.
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The form of the text shows informality as all able to express opinions in
which individuals aren’t bothered about academic register.
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The use of hash tags ‘#’ show a possible trend of the topic matter showing
it’s a highly discussed subject – highlighting real peoples frustration and
confusion.
Pragmatics
- The feature of being able to like the comments made or ‘retweet’ them may show support from other individuals – more likes = a more relevant point?
- We can gather from some of the comments that taking time off in term time will not affect the final grades.
- The individuals making comments will most likely be parents ‘they never had teacher trading days when I was a kid’ the conjunction ‘when’ highlights the past therefore her most likely now having kids of her own.
- Predeterminer – ‘double’ which is the first lexis used in the text which is placed in capital letter – emphasises the difference of prices in term time and non-term time.
- High frequency lexis- ‘cheaper’ and ‘costs’ throughout article discussing prices which would be expecting on this certain topic matter.
- Adverb – ‘soaring’ possible collocation as it could be paired with the lexis ‘flying’. Or simply emphasising the dramatic increase of prices on holidays.
Grammar- ‘Family of four – including flights’ the em dash used for cohesion of sentences by adding more relevant information.
- Article consists of mostly complex sentences with clauses offering declarative statements on the topic.
- ‘Florida and Malta were cheaper’ article consists of declarative syntax with it containing facts and statistics.
Discourse markers
- The adjective ‘overall’ shows readers that previous information will be summed up and will offer a summarised conclusion.
- The images create discourse as it creates an identity of the topic which will relate to holiday makers and possibly parents.
- The use of authoritative figures create more of an identity for holiday makers, always makes the information more credible.
Graphology
- The layout of the article adds formality to the piece of text as it holds statistic tables supporting all declaratives syntax.
- By the lexical choice ‘double’ being put in capital letters may add a sense of emergence to the matter, as it is ridiculous prices increase over non-term time.
Pragmatics
- On the article holds the number of comments received on the article ‘329 comments’ which could highlight a high level of controversy on the matter, as it clearly frustrates individuals. The high level of comments also shows support of the article as most comments will mostly likely be in agreement.
- From the table we understand in non-term time holidays that they are a lot more expensive then term time, which is not acceptable.
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