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English Language 7701
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Free English Language 7701 revision notes for AQA AS Level students. Each chapter covers a key topic with worked examples and practice prompts you can take straight into the thinka app.
Methods of language analysis: language levels
Phonetics, phonology and prosodics
Graphology
Lexis and semantics
Grammar, including morphology
Pragmatics
Discourse
Paper 1 Section A: Textual variations and representations
Language shaped by audience, purpose, genre and mode
Language shaped by context
Constructing meanings and representations
Enacting relationships between writers, speakers and audiences
How identity is constructed
How audiences are addressed and positioned
The functions, structure and organisation of texts
Analysing a single text
Comparing two texts linked by topic or theme
Paper 2 Section A: Language diversity
Sociolects: social and occupational groups
Language and gender
Regional and national dialects within the British Isles
How language varies: personal, social and geographical contexts
Why language varies: views and explanations
Identity and relationships in language varieties
Attitudes to language diversity
Using language data and research findings (dictionaries, corpora, tables, graphs, statistics)
Discursive essay on language diversity
Paper 2 Section B: Language discourses and writing skills
Attitudes to language in texts for non-specialist audiences
Directed writing on attitudes to language
Writing discursively about language issues in an academic essay
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