Analysis of Written and Spoken English

Paper Summary:

This paper provides a commentary that demonstrates an awareness of the impact of both written and spoken English in real world contexts. It initially identifies and discusses some of the aspects of written English in a specific piece of text, followed by a more general discussion of some of the features that relate to spoken English. The paper appends the article discussed.

Contents:
Introduction
Appendix 1 - Written Text extracted from www.nufc.com

From the Paper:

"Thornbury (1997) gives six features (purpose, content, status, style, grammar, lexis and layout) which should be considered in relation to genre and I will cover some of these aspects due to the word limit restriction.
"The purpose is to give a factual account of events from the fans perspective. It is structured so that the 'headline' for the article is the result from the game, which is common in this genre. It is attention grabbing and appeals to everyone with an interest in that particular game. It is organised in such a way that there is a background to the current situation of the team first, followed by a chronological account of the main events throughout the match. In this genre, there is time for reflection and redrafting therefore the text is mainly composed of long, grammatically complex and accurate sentences. This is because the sentences are mostly comprised of at least one main or independent clause that can stand by itself as a grammatically viable simple sentence and one subordinate or dependent clause."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Beaugrande, Robert de, and Wolfgang Dressler. (1981) Introduction to Text Linguistics. London: Longman
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