This text is an extract from children’s book series ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid’; the font used is effective because it literally looks like a childs hand writing, also the images used portray the image that a young person has wrote it. The pragmatics of this show that the child couldn’t explain fully in words what they were trying to say and therefore felt the need to include an image as an example. This works well with the mood of the book as it’s a childlike thing to do.
Some words, such as; “SISSY!” have been capitalised, this
emphasises the word and shows that the writer aims to get across a message of
anger, and maybe the word has been shouted. Also the word ‘PUNCH’ is in capital
letters, I think the author intended for this action to be portrayed as quite
violent.
You have chosen a text to discuss, but unfortunately the relevance to attitudes to language (prescriptivism/descriptivism) is not mentioned.
ReplyDeletePlease could you indicate where I will find the work you completed for me due to the lesson you missed for your media project?