[Salmaa!]

So, over this next week I need to decide what I want to base my language investigation on.. but I'm completely clueless atm. I'm pretty sure that I don't want to do anything CLA-related, drifting towards language change - but the scope is so wide that I have no idea where to begin.

Does anyone have any ideas for topics? Or if you've already done this at A2, what would you advise?

Thank you!

[rayyychel]

I'm exactly the same!

I was thinking that perhaps I could do something related to gender differences but all my ideas are either to simple or too complex.

Bah! >

[Salmaa!]

(Original post by rayyychel)
I'm exactly the same!

I was thinking that perhaps I could do something related to gender differences but all my ideas are either to simple or too complex.

Bah! >

exactly! and it's gotta be something we'll stay interested in for the next 4 months, big decision and not long to make it!

[ltpaine8]

I'm planning on doing something r.e. changing rhetoric in public speeches (shall be analysing Chamberlain and Bush's respective declarations of war, I think). I've got a draft in for the media text tomorrow, and am yet to do anything. Hmm.

[Salmaa!]

(Original post by ltpaine8)
I'm planning on doing something r.e. changing rhetoric in public speeches (shall be analysing Chamberlain and Bush's respective declarations of war, I think). I've got a draft in for the media text tomorrow, and am yet to do anything. Hmm.

how did you decide on what topic you wanted to write about?

[merkatron]

You're right about it being something you have to care about enough to do for the next 3-4 months. I've been looking at what moderators and examiners suggest, so how about:

something that annoys you about language use - (innit; rising intonation in a statement yeah?; using "ghetto slang" when you live in Norfolk; particularly sexist language; the language of "funny" comedians who mock disabled people for cheap gags; PC-gone-mad...you get the idea).

or

something that you really like about language use ("and I was like, and she was like"; the inventiveness of slang and Multicultural London English; interesting alternatives to sexist language; the language of comedians who are better than Gervais and Boyle..etc).

More ideas on here too.

[Salmaa!]

(Original post by merkatron)
You're right about it being something you have to care about enough to do for the next 3-4 months. I've been looking at what moderators and examiners suggest, so how about:

something that annoys you about language use - (innit; rising intonation in a statement yeah?; using "ghetto slang" when you live in Norfolk; particularly sexist language; the language of "funny" comedians who mock disabled people for cheap gags; PC-gone-mad...you get the idea).

or

something that you really like about language use ("and I was like, and she was like"; the inventiveness of slang and Multicultural London English; interesting alternatives to sexist language; the language of comedians who are better than Gervais and Boyle..etc).

More ideas on here too.

thank you very much! very helpful, i've been brainstorming a few ideas but it's just getting them to fit into the structure of the investigation which is proving difficult, there's some really good ideas there though so thank you

[rayyychel]

or you could always challenge the ideas of a theorist; for example i'm seeing if Pilkington's theory that men and women have different conversational styles still applies :P

[thompsonic7]

How come your schools are starting so late? Our completed draft- from hypothesis to conclusion- is due in next Friday!

[merkatron]

(Original post by thompsonic7)
How come your schools are starting so late? Our completed draft- from hypothesis to conclusion- is due in next Friday!

Quite a few centres do ENGB3/ENGA3 exam units in Jan and then coursework units after.

[thompsonic7]

(Original post by merkatron)
Quite a few centres do ENGB3/ENGA3 exam units in Jan and then coursework units after.

Aaah I see, I always assumed that coursework deadlines were the same across all centres.

[Salmaa!]

(Original post by thompsonic7)
How come your schools are starting so late? Our completed draft- from hypothesis to conclusion- is due in next Friday!

woww! well in my college we've done the exam first, then doing the coursework from jan-may and then finish, i'm guessing lots of other colleges have done it the other way around. Early finish for us though, win.

[Salmaa!]

(Original post by rayyychel)
or you could always challenge the ideas of a theorist; for example i'm seeing if Pilkington's theory that men and women have different conversational styles still applies :P

that's a good idea too, thank you

[Salmaa!]

Has anyone got any good ideas for Lang&Gender investigations?

[Abbers]

Anyone have good a2 revision notes?

[Jade10128]

Can anyone help me?? I'm analysing 4 different reports on Jimmy Savile sex abuse scandal. Two are tabloid and two are broadsheet, I can see clear differences regarding their political affiliations (The Sun and The Times have the blame more on the BBC than Savile - obviously none back up his behavior). But I'm struggling on what PARTICULAR linguistic features I can pick up on, analyse and comment on at the moment I am describing and generalizing too much! Someone please help me out

[Beth893]

(Original post by Jade10128)
Can anyone help me?? I'm analysing 4 different reports on Jimmy Savile sex abuse scandal. Two are tabloid and two are broadsheet, I can see clear differences regarding their political affiliations (The Sun and The Times have the blame more on the BBC than Savile - obviously none back up his behavior). But I'm struggling on what PARTICULAR linguistic features I can pick up on, analyse and comment on at the moment I am describing and generalizing too much! Someone please help me out

Hey! for my english coursework i am writing about how different newspaper use language when covering the same story, i was thinking bout doing it on oscar pistorius but im finding it really hard on linguistic features! what did you do for yours?

[Jade10128]

(Original post by Beth893)
Hey! for my english coursework i am writing about how different newspaper use language when covering the same story, i was thinking bout doing it on oscar pistorius but im finding it really hard on linguistic features! what did you do for yours?

Hope I'm not too late...
I found mine so hard to analyse...I ended up looking at: Abstract nouns, adjectives (evaluative, descriptive etc - very good for quantitive data), emotive language, pronoun use and bias spin. It sounds a lot easier than it is to actually analyse newspaper reports..not to mention time consuming! Hope you get/got on a bit better than I did