Language Analysis Approach

[lolipopper]

hey guys, in language analysis how do you go about doing it?

Do you do it by going through paragraph by paragraph of the article or do you analyse it argument wise?

[simba]

I do mine chronologically, but that's since it was predominantly how I was taught

[Colokid]

I was taught to do it by focusing on the 4 or 5 key arguments presented in the material, and to also incorporate the visual material into your Body paragraphs, and not to have a separate BP for the visual material. hope this helps.

[Damoz.G]

I just pick up on individual words or phrases and then talk about the implications and positioning of them on the reader.

[e^1]

I identify the approaches of how he/she gets the reader to incline to his/her perspective. Example could be that the author could be displaying something as bad, or that the author demonstrates the opposing ideas in a fearful way.

[lolipopper]

thanks guys!

I identify the approaches of how he/she gets the reader to incline to his/her perspective. Example could be that the author could be displaying something as bad, or that the author demonstrates the opposing ideas in a fearful way.

so e^1, do you write in each paragraph how the reader was effected and just discuss the techniques?

[e^1]

thanks guys!

so e^1, do you write in each paragraph how the reader was effected and just discuss the techniques?

Perhaps I was unclear about approaches ahaha

Anyway, what I meant by approaches was a 'general persuasive effect' that the author has created. That is my topic sentence. After that, I use multiple examples which relate to the general persuasive effect.

Analysis for me: Example -> Effect -> Reason why this effect was incited on reader -> What has the writer done and why has he/she done this.

Hope that clears things up

[lolipopper]

how long would people spend analyzing the article and how much of reading time on section C, before getting to the writing? and how long would you spend in the whole of Section C?

[joy1010]

i was taught to break the article up into different sections depending on the writers arguments.
i plan to spend 10 mins on LA and 5 mins for TR and context, thinking about what i'm going to write.

scared and nervous for the exam

[brenden]

My approach was to aim to demonstrate a perceptive analysis of how language can be used to persuade.

I think that's the best way to go , don't get stuck up thinking "oh i have to do it in this way!" especially if there's an exam curveball that you can't quite mesh with your writing schema.

All of your approaches sound good guys. Don't be TOO nervous about the exam (but don't be too calm either, it'll fuck you over, trust me) - you should be confident in what you've done tomorrow and show VCAA who's boss GL.

[lolipopper]

My approach was to aim to demonstrate a perceptive analysis of how language can be used to persuade.

I think that's the best way to go , don't get stuck up thinking "oh i have to do it in this way!" especially if there's an exam curveball that you can't quite mesh with your writing schema.

All of your approaches sound good guys. Don't be TOO nervous about the exam (but don't be too calm either, it'll fuck you over, trust me) - you should be confident in what you've done tomorrow and show VCAA who's boss GL.

im still confused. So what would your topic sentence for each paragraph be?

would it be like "XYZ made the reader felt ..." and then you would explain how this was done?

or would it be like " XYZ made the following argument ..." and then explain how the argument was laid out and in what ways the author used his language to persuade the audience?

[brenden]

Well, I wouldn't ever said 'made' - I'd prefer to say "makes" and write in present tense

Though, my topic sentences were somewhat close to the second one. I'd touch on an overall aim/vibe/argument of some portion and discuss how language was used in a particular way and interrelated in a way conducive to that effect.

[pi]

I'd touch on an overall aim/vibe/argument of some portion and discuss how language was used in a particular way and interrelated in a way conducive to that effect.

This. I think it's a smarter structure than just running through chronologically, structure paragraphs by argument and what the author has done to make those arguments persuasive. It might so happen that by going by arguments it may be chronological anyway though.

I'm not sure if this para was any good, but it goes by that structure more-or-less:

Central to Hutcheon’s aim is his desire to position the stakeholder of Facebook users to suspect that Mark Zuckerberg, and his company Facebook, are dealing inappropriately with their private information (argument author is making). In order to do so (persuasive language illustrated from here), and from the onset of his article, he attempts to create a comparison between the public Zuckerberg, and a figure he describes as the ‘real’ Zuckerberg. Language such as ‘clever one’ and ‘real’ are peppered throughout the opening of the opinionative piece, and immediately (the effect on the reader) cloud the readers mind with doubt as to whether or not Zuckerberg is telling the truth about his personality, and also allowing readers to question who Zuckerberg really is in reality. Furthermore (more persuasive language), the claim that Zuckerberg ‘prefers to be seen as a social visionary’ juxtaposes his ‘conniving, sociopathic ''asshole''’ figure from the movie The Social Network; hence (more effect) creating imagery in the minds of readers of Zuckerberg being someone with multiple contrasting personalities and someone who on this basis, (link to topic sentence) cannot be trusted or believed, hence further instilling this doubt in minds of his readers.