We looked today at Martin Joos' five-part system for analysing the register of a text, beyond just formal/informal, but instead classifying texts (or elements of texts, as we saw), along a five-position scale.
this article gives some further discussion of Joos' system., and lays out a helpful table of the five clocks against four features of texts. it includes some more examples and features that help identify the five clocks at work.
http://ww2.odu.edu/al/jpbroder/jpb_on_joos_1976.pdf
Showing posts with label Speech. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Speech. Show all posts
Monday, 29 February 2016
Thursday, 8 December 2011
Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric
This marvellous page hyperlinks a range of classical rhetorical terms and explanations,with examples of each. The links on the left are most useful - organising and classifying the approaches to speechifying in a range of well-crossreferenced ways.
An exploration of rhetoric isn't only useful as a way into thinking about discourse structures, sentence structures and semantic tricks – though the terms aren't ones we need to know at A Level – but also a way to think about structuring your own writing and presentations.
http://rhetoric.byu.edu/default.htm
An exploration of rhetoric isn't only useful as a way into thinking about discourse structures, sentence structures and semantic tricks – though the terms aren't ones we need to know at A Level – but also a way to think about structuring your own writing and presentations.
http://rhetoric.byu.edu/default.htm
Thursday, 13 October 2011
How not to represent accents...
The Australian had to apologise rapidly for this basically racist representation of the speech of an Irish airline boss. The respelling is pretty broad even at the start - and when you come across the 'dialect' idioms later on, you realise this isn't your normal (or acceptable) reporting...
Friday, 26 August 2011
Steve Jobs Vs. Tim Cook: Words Of Wisdom
Interesting little frequency analysis and discussion of speeches from Apple's old boss and their new one, using Wordle to illustrate.
Steve Jobs Vs. Tim Cook: Words Of Wisdom
http://www.fastcompany.com/1776013/its-all-in-the-words-steve-jobs-versus-tim-cook
Thursday, 28 July 2011
An Uh, Er, Um Essay
Looks like it's not so great to be umless... Sometimes filled pauses are useful for more than just buying you thinking time.
Tuesday, 19 July 2011
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