Hi! I was resitting this exam due to completely messing up with exam last year due to the stupid Gender question!
I did groupings on: spoken discourse - obviously the two spoken ones; specific audience - the vow/church one (saying it was likely to be for engaged couples to practise their vows, or ministers practising - however I didn't finish this due to time!), I said the jokes were suited to an adult audience as the connotations of flexibility followed by the "I can't do tuesdays" links to an adult's busy lifestyle due to their working life and family commitments etc. I didn't say very much about these though! I also did a group on to inform with a subgroup of to persuade which had the comic book one, saying how it would be seen by a vast audience due to people carrying the bag and just saying about the exclamative title and how the graphology suggests that it would be approachable for both men and women etc. I also put the one about the dustbin and spoke about personification, saying how due to this being a serious document from the council it should be rather formal but however they use this personification to add humour etc. and I also put in the text about the detective novel in the inform/persuade (subgroup).
My English is so bad there (oops). I also did Power and loved it!
Wrote about the asymmetry in terms of address, however that Marie (or whatever) turns it around to establish her own power, how Marie uses epistemic modals at the beginning due to the man having more power due to being a consumer. I said about Marie's positive and negative politeness, how she holds the ground and controls the topic with her use of interrogatives; her persuasive language etc. I also said how the man uses a face-threatening act when he says "not being funny but..." and so on! Also said how there isn't many non-fluency features in Marie's language but it may be down to it actually being planned due to it being a company and them wanting to keep their customers!
Overall, a good paper! The grouping texts weren't the best I've seen, but I was really really happy with my Power question and answer!