Friday, 7 March 2014

High frequency lexis grouping:
Text B-Recipe that appeared in a cookery magazine in 2004
Text C: An extract from a children's story called Mr Bump Loses his memory'
Text E: Transcript from a transaction in a newspaper's shop.
Text F: An extract from an IM conversation, taken from an internet forum.

In all four texts, high frequency lexis is used to communicate in an easy and understandable manner. The recipe in text B uses easy and straight forward sentences so the readers and can easily follow the instructions. Again; if the language was too difficult for people to understand, then the purpose of teaching people to cook the cake is pointless, as they wouldn't understand what they're supposed to be doing. Text C uses easy language so the children who are reading the book will understand what's happening, this helps with the purpose of entertaining the children, as if the language was too difficult then they wouldn't be able to understand and therefore not find it entertaining. Text E and F is a transcript/extract from a transcript, showing high frequency, everyday language, as they are performing everyday tasks, it would be unnecessary and not normal to have low frequency lexis. When having a conversation in a newspaper shop, you don't use high terminology, the purpose-in this case-is to settle his newspaper account, this doesn't take a huge amount of conversion or intellectual language. Nor does the conversation from the internet forum, which uses a lot of nonstandard language and abbreviations, perhaps because it is easier to type these that the whole word or sentence.

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