| Introduction |
Strategies
for identifying unknown texts |
Example |
| Mode
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| Tenor |
| Domain |
| Referential |
| Expressive |
| Conative |
| Poetic |
| Phatic |
| Lexis |
| Orthography |
| Typography |
| Phonology |
| Syntax |
| Content |
| Context |
| Style |
| Prosodics |
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| Syllabus |
9001
Specification |
| English
Language A/AS |
| English
Language and Literature |
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Choosing
the course |
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Assessment
Objectives |
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Pathways
through the 6 units |
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| Main
Topics
|
1
Origins of Language |
The
Salmon |
| A
Prehistory Timeline |
| Indo-European |
| Family
Tree |
| How
Indo-European was discovered |
| Non
Indo-European language families |
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| 2
Signs & Symbols |
Development
of the Western Alphabet |
| Chinese
Characters |
| Arabic
Script |
| Spelling |
| Spelling
in Advertising |
| From
Ox to A
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| 3
Child's Acquisition of Language |
Catherine
at 2.10 years |
| Counting
(sound file) |
| Drawing
(sound file) |
| Rhyme
(sound file) |
| Transcriptions
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| 4
Language Change and History |
The
Invasions map |
| A
language Timeline |
| Chaucer
and his time 1 |
| Chaucer
and his time 2 |
| Caxton
and his time |
| Change
in the Bible |
| Boy's
Own Paper 1922 |
| New
words in Business 2003 |
| New
Words 1977-1985 |
| New
words since 1986 |
| The
process of change |
| Music
reviews |
| Example
etymologies |
| Bollywood |
| Buzzwords
- fashionable words through the ages |
| Global
English |
| Is
the hyphen making a dash for extinction? |
| Jargon
used in the Iraq War 2003 |
| Issues
of change - a summary |
| The
Future of English |
| A
Placename Journey |
| English - What A Language! |
| Tenses |
| Words
for all Seasons
|
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| 5
Word Structure |
Essential
vocabulary for children |
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Deconstructing
a word |
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| 6
Sentence Structure |
The
green sports car |
| Ambiguity |
| Bushisms
for syntax analysis |
| Chomsky |
| Examples
of non-standard usage |
| Nouns
or verbs? |
| Pronouns |
| Noun
Phrases |
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The
Apostrophe |
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| 7
The Notion of Correctness |
Does
Your English Let You Down? |
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Knuckleheads |
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Pupils will learn to talk proper |
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Unnecessary Quotation Marks |
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| 8
The Sounds of Language |
|
Lord
Reith |
| Vita
Sackville-West |
| Misheard
conversations |
|
Tongue Twisters |
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|
| 9
Transcriptions |
Going
Equipped |
| Racing
Commentary |
| Catherine
Grey aged 2years 10 months |
| Boat
Race |
| Parkinson
interviews Cher |
The Guided Interview |
| Weather
Forecasts |
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| 10
Spoken & Written Modes |
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Punctuation |
11
Discourse Analysis including
unscripted conversation,
scripted interview,
prompted speech,
... |
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Pragmatics |
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The Phatic Function |
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Bush
and Blair unplugged |
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| 12
Dialects and Non Standard Varieties
including studies of language
and social class |
Standard
English |
| Moses
and the Children of Israel |
| BBC
to be less cut-glass |
| James
Beattie's Theory of Language |
| Accent
prejudices - Phil Tufnell |
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British
Black English |
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Burns' "To a Mouse" |
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Scots Dialect and Lalland |
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Language of The Street |
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The Sarcastic Thief (Yorkshire) |
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Twa Corbies (Scots) |
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Cheryl Cole - A Geordie Misunderstood in the US |
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| 13
Register and Appropriateness |
Court
Circular |
| Domain |
| Academic
Jargon |
| Weather
Jargon |
| Is
Swearing Bad Language? |
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| 14
Tenor and Domain |
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| 15
Specific Domains |
Legal |
| US
Legal language in the Shoebomber trial |
| Propaganda |
| Bikes |
| Crisp
packet |
| John
F Kennedy's Inaugural Address |
| Catherine's
Talk |
| Estate
Agents |
| Lonely
Hearts |
| Journalism
- Winners Dinners |
| Food
Critics |
| Romeo
and Juliet - by text |
| Football Managers' Tenses |
| Teenage jargon |
| Specialist
Vocabulary - Architectural Mouldings |
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| 16
Literature & Figurative Language |
|
Car
Names |
| 4x4
car names |
| Chocolate
Names |
| Caravan
Names |
|
Fighting Vehicles names |
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Irony |
|
Hollow Point |
|
Pain Words |
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| 17
TV and Radio |
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| 18
Newspapers |
Newspaper
Headlines
Implications & Allegations
Allegations - Barron Dropped
The Guided Busway
|
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| 19
Advertising, Propaganda |
Bikes |
| Chips |
| Advertising
Features |
| Propaganda |
| Colour
names 1 |
| Colour
names 2 |
| Advertising
spellings |
| Hotels |
| Wine Blurbs |
| Islamic State |
| Tapenade |
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| 20
Rhetoric |
John
F Kennedy's Inaugural Address |
| The
Fatherly Leader Kim Il Sung |
| Tony
Blair, Afghanistan |
| George
W Bush, Twin Towers |
| George
W Bush Afghanistan |
| Churchill,
we shall fight them on the beaches |
| The
Columbia Disaster |
| Tim
Collins in Iraq |
| Abraham
Lincoln, Gettysburg Address |
| Mark
Anthony, death of Caesar |
| Saddam
Hussein, the enemy is trapped |
| Ariel
Sharon, Gaza Strip |
| Metaphors
and their use |
| Martin
Luther King |
| An
Icy Blast - metaphor in weather forecasts |
| Computer Metaphors |
| Avoiding the Question |
| Barack
Obama: Victory |
Inaugural Address | Commentary
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| 21
Plain English & Gobbledygook |
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Legalese |
| World's
Worst Writing |
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Orwell's Rules of English |
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Evasive
language on the railways |
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Police Jargon |
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English As She Is Spoke |
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Euphemisms - The Fat Lady Sings |
| 22
Editing and writing in style |
A
letter by a learner of English
|
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| 23
Political Correctness, Sexism
and Genderlect |
Sexist
terminology |
| Women's
Language |
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Judges
Prejudice |
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What
does gay really mean? |
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24
Research |
Bernstein |
|
Cheshire |
|
Eskimo
Words for Snow |
|
More
Eskimo Words for Snow |
|
Kerswill |
|
Labov |
|
Milroy |
|
Trudgill
- Norwich |
|
Language
& Thought |
|
Martha's
Vinyard |
|
Berlin
and Kay, Colour words |
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25
Issues for discussion |
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Globish |
|
A
linguistic guiding body? |
|
Standards |
|
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| Timelines |
Processes
of Change |
| Late
Anglo-Saxon Bible (extract) |
| Prologue
to Canterbury Tales |
| Wyclif
Bible |
| Caxton
|
| Tyndale
Bible |
| King
James Bible |
| BBC |
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| List
by Contents |
| Introduction |
| Tasks |
Topic |
| Resource |
| Vocabulary
Guide |
| Support
- how parents can help |
| Search |
| Other
English Sites |
| A
language reference page |
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