Friday, 7 March 2014

Grouping texts - to inform

Out of the six texts four of them are used to inform the reader to a certain extent. However text E is questionable to what extent it is informing, for the conversation to carry on and for the transaction to be complete they both rely on each other's information. The language used in both text B and text D is imperative, though text D uses low frequency lexis words that are likely to really be understood by its target audience as the formality is high also, this is similar to the formal register in text A which is just information to an audience who would already be interested in the topic as the advertisement on The Globe is in The Globe, so those who are reading it would already be there and likely just be after more information. This is similar for Text B as it is in a magazine that when being read would have already been bought and therefore the reader would be interested in this as it is a cookery magazine and the whole magazine's purposes are therefore to inform. The imperative recipe is more formal than the introduction, where a friendly, rhetorical question is used as well as tasty adjectives to entice the reader to go on and learn about how they can make the 'good-quality,' 'thick, dorset creame,' recipe, therefore the language is doing its job well to get the audience to be informed.

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