by Deena Kamel
At first, I would like to set the main idea of this text. This report taked out from Toronto Star, it's about how English had been evolving throughout time. In the middle east are three main variarions of English; Hinglish, Chinglish and Arabizi. Then, the author set some examples of people who have been afected by this change.
That is basically what is the text about, and now, I'll analyse the text setting out the topics, the theme, the register, etc; but without living the authors purpose. When you read the title and the first paragraphs, you can conclude that it is about a formal report taked from a newspaper, that is because the register is formal and doesn't share an special tone. The theme of this text are Language and variations, because that is the text about in a very generalized way. We can't left away the author's purpose, it's very important to considerate. I think that the author wants to inform people who read this newspaper from Toronto, that English has a lot of variations, and she wants to communicate it because she is from where this variations occur, because if her lastname, wich is, I think, from the middle east. This text is very interesting and has very confident sources and quotes.
Fernando, I think you've been doing a great work with your blog, but you're missing the latest summaries of what we've been studying.
ReplyDeleteYou're missing all about LANGUAGE and GENDER (content + Gender Ads activity) and the new unit: LITERATURE: TEXTS and CONTEXTS (Content + online investigation on Harper Lee's life and times)
You must UPDATE your blog by next week, and I'll check again!