NEW INVESTIGATION

English Investigation Plan

Power - influential

I will be looking at different publications of reviews on the same dance film and see how the journalist's accommodate their language.

Online publications to use as data - The Telegraph, The Guardian, The Daily Mail

Do the reviews include interrogatives?
What politeness strategies do they use?
Is their speech direct and bold?
Sentence moods?
Theories – Giles communication accommodation theory – written plan


Consider looking at rhetorical devices used or persuasive techniques some expert lists as the most common or find some review theory.

What to research -

Review writing techniques to see how journalist's structure their writing

Collect online sample data of dance film reviews, maybe magazine reviews of dance groups - eg. Diversity

       When analysing published reviews consider writing about:

• Polysyllabic lexis
• Metaphors
• How do the journalists accommodate their language to suit the audience?
• Sentence moods

Ideas on what dance films, which have published reviews, to look at
- Dreamgirls (2006)
- Moulin Rouge (2001)
- Step Up
- Footloose

Methodology and update of hypothesis

Hypothesis
'The sentence mood used by the carer will affect the length of answer the child will reply with'


I was going to do a hypothesis with two sections - using part of chomsky's theory idea as the other half of it but it proved to be too much so I realised I should focus on just one hypothesis instead of mixing two together.


The data I hope to collect if unable to collect it in person will be from the Internet (most likely YouTube) and it will consist of a young child about ( add age here - talk to Halla ) doing an activity such as drawing whilst talking to their parent/carer. The reasoning for the activity is because I will be analysing the conversation which will hopefully be about what the child is doing - I will analyse the speech of the child to see if the responses will be varied due to certain sentence moods the parent/carer may use.

(Need help to write more, don't understand how to write a methodology).

Data - I aim to collect data of my cousin and their child's conversation.