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Quick questions on Discourse and text structure: analysing whole-text organisation - Eduqas A-Level English Language
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What is move from feature to effect?Show answer
As with every framework, the marks come from the move from feature to effect. Naming a discourse feature ("the speaker initiates every topic shift") earns AO1; reading what it does ("controlling the agenda of the talk and positioning the other as a respondent") earns AO3.
What is a model discourse paragraph?Show answer
"Throughout the exchange the interviewer initiates every adjacency pair, asking the questions and allocating the next turn, while the interviewee's contributions are confined to second pair parts. This turn-taking structure enacts the asymmetry of the encounter: the interviewer controls the agenda and the floor, and the interviewee's discourse role is to respond rather than initiate, which positions them as the lower-status, less powerful participant." This names the conversational features and reads the effect on the power dynamic.
What is a weak paragraph upgraded?Show answer
A surface reading writes "There are lots of connectives, so the text flows." Upgraded: the dense lexical cohesion (the repeated semantic chain of 'growth', 'expansion', 'progress') and the logical conjunctions ('consequently', 'as a result') bind the argument into a tight, controlled structure, which lends the writing an authoritative, inevitable quality suited to its persuasive purpose.
What is q1?Show answer
What is the difference between anaphoric and cataphoric referencing? [2 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
Name three features of the structure of spoken conversation. [3 marks]
What is q3?Show answer
Analyse how the structure of a conversation shapes the dynamics of the interaction. [10 marks]
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