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GRAMMARFirst describe your text briefly in the space below, including its intended audience and purpose.

Now look more carefully at your text. Try to find at least one feature that has a significant stylistic effect. Tick the type of feature, identify tyou wish to make, quote your example precisely, and explain the effect it has on meaning and interpretation.

5Type of feature Point Example Effect

Word classes e.g. abstract vsconcrete nouns, proper vs common;stative vs dynamic verbs, main vs auxiliaryvs modal, active vs passive; descriptive vsevaluative vs emotive adjectives,comparative vs superlative; adverbs oftime, manner, place

Sentence functions e.g.declarative, imperative, exclamative,

interrogative

tySentence complexi e.g. simplevs multiple (compound vs complex)

Sentence structure e.g. completevs incomplete; phrase vs clause vssentence

Standard vs non-standardgrammatical forms e.g. We was

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Frame

LEXISFirst describe your text briefly in the space below, including its intended audience and purpose.

Now look more carefully at your text. Try to find at least one feature that has a significant stylistic effect. Tick the type of feature, identify thyou wish to make, quote your example precisely, and explain the effect it has on meaning and interpretation.

5Type of feature Point Example Effect

Regional lexis e.g.American,Scottish, Bristolian

Lexis with a particular attitudee.g. formal, informal, humorous, polite,impolite, taboo, slang, euphemisms,

elevated

Lexis of a particular age e.g.archaic, old-fashioned, neologisms

Lexis of a particular structuree.g. monosyllabic vs polysyllabic,acronym, abbreviation, blend

Lexis of a particular origin e.g.Latinate, Anglo-Saxon, loan words

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SEMANTICSFirst describe your text briefly in the space below, including its intended audience and purpose.

Now look more carefully at your text. Try to find at least one feature that has a significant stylistic effect. Tick the type of feature, identify thyou wish to make, quote your example precisely, and explain the effect it has on meaning and interpretation.

5Type of feature Point Example Effect

Particular semantic fields e.g.finance, shapes, food, physics, death,military, religion, computers

Types of meaning e.g. denotationvs connotation; referential, affective,emotive; literal vs figurative

Semantic relations e.g. synonymsand antonyms

Semantic changes e.g.amelioration, pejoration, broadening,

narrowing, weakening

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PhonologyFirst describe your text briefly in the space below, including its intended audience and purpose.

Now look more carefully at your text. Try to find at least one feature that has a significant stylistic effect. Tick the type of feature, identify thyou wish to make, quote your example precisely, and explain the effect it has on meaning and interpretation.

5Type of feature Point Example Effect

Features of normal speech e.g.fillers, pauses, volume, stress

Rhetorical devices e.g. alliteration,assonance, onomatopoeia, rhyme,repetition

Features of connected speeche.g. assimilation, elision, intrusion, rhythm

Spoken texture e.g. differentqualities of vowel and consonant sounds;accent features; interjections

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PRAGMATICSFirst describe your text briefly in the space below, including its intended audience and purpose.

Now look more carefully at your text. Try to find at least one feature that has a significant stylistic effect. Tick the type of feature, identify thyou wish to make, quote your example precisely, and explain the effect it has on meaning and interpretation.

5Type of feature Point Example EffectSpoken interaction e.g. Repairs,backchannelling, length of utterance,speech acts, topic shifts and loops

Features of politeness andcooperation e.g. hedges, Grices

maxims, positive and negative face, facethreatening act

sImplied relationship e.g.pronounuse, forms of address, roles

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GRAPHOLOGYFirst describe your text briefly in the space below, including its intended audience and purpose.

Now look more carefully at your text. Try to find at least one feature that has a significant stylistic effect. Tick the type of feature, identify thyou wish to make, quote your example precisely, and explain the effect it has on meaning and interpretation.

5Type of feature Point Example EffectNature of script e.g. handwritten or

printed, upper or lower case, Roman orother alphabet

Fonts e.g. type Arial, Times NewRoman, Broadway; style italic, bold,standard, underline; size; colour.

Use of punctuation e.g.capitalisation, bullet points, exclamationmarks

Text organisation e.g. headingsand subheadings; columns vs paragraphs;lists, boxes and tables; lines and borders;line spacing and white space.

Text illustration e.g. Diagrams and

drawings, colour, logos, photographs,charts and graphs

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DISCOURSEFirst describe your text briefly in the space below, including its intended audience and purpose.

Now look more carefully at your text. Try to find at least one feature that has a significant stylistic effect. Tick the type of feature, identify thyou wish to make, quote your example precisely, and explain the effect it has on meaning and interpretation.

5Type of feature Point Example EffectGenre and the use of itsconventions e.g. sign, advertisement,letter, personal ad, recipe, weatherforecast

Communicative situation e.g.peer group meeting, interview, publicannouncement

Management of speech e.g.turn-taking, openings, closing sequences,adjacency pairs, interruptions, overlaps

Structure e.g. discourse markers,frames, narrative structure

Registere.g. the variety oflanguageas affected by settings, participants andactivity