Representation

1
Representation

• How did you get on with the homework?

2
Text pronouns and determiners

• Which pronouns/determiners are used?
• What do they indicate about the position of the
  reader, writer and subject?

3
Text active and passive constructions

• A survey for the ATL found these two truculent
  teenage war cries were the most repeated by
  pupils.
• But the annual conference also heard of positive
  influences from programmes.
• There was also a problem with pupils arriving at
  school too exhausted to study

4
Text modification

• Which noun phrases do you think are interesting
  in creating an image of teens in this text?
• Classroom comedians
• Truculent teenage war cries
• Sulky adolescent retort

5
Text metaphor

• Deployed
• War cries

6
Text nominalisation

• excessive swearing on TV made them believe it
  was normal.
• swearing has become so frequent on television

7
Text register and lexical choice

• Deployed
• Truculent
• Television culture
• Retort
• Made them believe
• Helped young people talk about current affairs

8
Text sentence and clause linking

• Many sentences are simple and declarative.
• Report clauses teachers were concerned that
  teachers warned that the survey suggested

9
Text tense and aspect

• A survey found
• Teachers warned
• also heard of
• has highlighted

10
Text subject positioning

• Where does the writer stand?
• Where does the writer place us?