What differences are there in the language of the transport cafe menu and the hotel menu?

How do the grammar, lexis, and graphology reflect the target audience of the menu?

Menu B is for a restaurant in a hotel the language used is very descriptive and also the language is associated with food. Its target audience is the higher class of society, this is clear by the use of “gourmet" in the title which suggests it’s a higher culture event or venue. The menu's layout is clear and easily understood, it has small symbols between each meal (*). Each meal is made to sound more appetizing by the way that they surround the noun subject with descriptives, such as  "interesting", "warm", and "quickly", these are intended to create an image in the readers mind of what the meal will look like. The language chosen is English with French vocabulary scattered throughout, the use of French gives the menu a sense of higher culture, lexis such as "meli-melo" and "crepinette" make you think of good food but also the French language carries connotations of supremacy over the lower classes. To be continued...................

AND

Menu A is a transport cafe menu, it has a clear intended audience, (people on the go or people who for example drive long distances). The layout of this menu is very simple, the menu is headed with a title which is in block capitals, the bulk of the text is in capitals but this shows that it is intended to be read quickly. To be continued.............

Telegraphic stage - Post- telegraphic stage

Sophie (2 years 4 months):

Sophie in the middle of the telegraphic stage, in this stage a child is just learning to use pronouns such as names, I and me, this is normal for this stage in a child’s language development. Also Sophie uses negation within her language, she puts “no” at the beginning of the sentence so that it’s clear either she doesn't have something or that she doesn't like what’s happening. This idea, for this study, is by a lady called Ursula Bellugi.

Sophie (3 years 5 months):

Sophie has now entered the post- telegraphic stage; Sophie is now showing a stronger depth of language and how to use it. Sophie has a clear understanding of opposites such as inside and outside, with this she demonstrates a concept of time awareness (tomorrow and lunch). She starts to create compound sentences by linking phrases together. With a strong use of modifiers, prepositions and modal words she is showing that, compared to a year ago, she has learned new language and grammatical features within language/ conversation, and has started to put them into practice. Sophie’s language development supports Piaget’s cognitive theory, that suggests that children cannot use language or grammatical features which they do not understand.

coursework planning

Type of data: x2/ x4 transcripts form doctor who (2 new and 2 old)
Area of theory: language and power and language and gender
Theorists: Fairclough (2001), Wareing (1999)
Frameworks: social group powers, instrumental power, influential power, sex + gender differences, semantics deteriation, boosting devices
Data to Collect: up to 4 transcripts
Comparability factors: two different doctors, two different years, two different companions
Reliablity factors: comparing two present transcripts and two past transcripts so i can see the common shifts in conversation
Ethicality factors: my transcripts are from a TV serives called Doctor who

My First Commentary ( first attempt )

My piece is based on my style modal written by Jacqueline Wilson a modern realistic children’s author, who writes novels/books for young teens on troubles that can affect everyday life, the genre of the books vary from young romance to family life she shows a wide range of work that she writes best. I have tried the word my story in a way to represent some of these problems, I tried to create the feeling that we are watching this person’s life as it happens, basing my language in a modern way to fit my audience which is aimed at young teens as my style model does in the book “Vicky Angel”. This story is based on the toils of life and how anything could happen.
 Throughout my text I have used a lot of dialect which is only partly seen in the first couple of pages in my style model, but when I looked at other novels for further ideas dialect was more predominant but because of this I have tried to make it as if she is speaking and writing in a book the events of the day, this is why I have used the pronoun “I” a lot throughout my piece this is to create the feel that the person is speaking but I also use a narrative language to make it  have a feel written feel too.
I felt that if I had of had more time I could have added more features that my style modal contained, this would have made my piece more entertaining to my intended audience (10-16), to interest that audience I have tried to create realistic situations that most people will go through in life at some point giving them a chance to relate to the characters.
By using different sentence structures I have tried to create different emotion through them,  

Research work

http://www.sophienicolaou.webspace.virginmedia.com/A2_Lang/language_investigation/getting_started.shtml

zigzageduction.co.uk/synopses/1171-s,pdf

My two main ideas are:

• The language of war in the different types of media (e.g. the news, documentarys, and magazines.)
• The language of humor in the movie Grown Ups

WAR RESOURCES:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1375670/

http://www.globalissues.org/article/157/war-propaganda-and-the-media

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=woar+in+the+news&oq=woar+in+the+news&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.5647j0j8&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8#q=war+in+the+news&tbm=nws

OLD:         http://warontherocks.com/2014/09/world-war-ii-remembered-through-the-movies/

NEW:        http://www.fashionnstyle.com/articles/25304/20140908/brad-pitt-war-movie-fury-debuts-two-new-trailers-shia-labeouf-logan-lerman-jon-bernthal-costar-october-release-date-see-footage.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Band_of_Brothers_(TV_miniseries)

What clues can you gather from this list of 50 first words on how a baby might acquire language?

Children from the day they are born see and hear new things from the list of 50 words you can clearly see that they learn to associate objects with sounds for example: quack-quack they associate with ducks. Commonly there first words are mainly things that they interact with daily for example: bowl, cup, book etc.

Also children seem to learn words from their parents or siblings; this is represented by the fact that the child says names like Jasper and Nana this shows me that the adults have introduced the child to these people and the child listens and remembers the names. This also shows that names are commonly picked up on in a child’s first words this is because they commonly come across them day to day.

 A child’s firsts words are also reflected in the child’s immediate surroundings, this is proven by the child’s use of words such as Jam and spoon this represents the child’s home, this shows me that a child’s development is influenced by where the child lives, who the baby lives with and the routine it follows.