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Michael Halliday (1975) suggests that we need language because we are forced to interact with other people and with our environment. As we get older and language becomes more complex, so does the social s...

The most important thing about an introduction is instilling a confidence in the reader or marker that you know what you are writing about, rather than making it up as you go along. Therefore it is often ...

Pragmatics is the study of meaning behind the words, dependent on their context. What this means is that the meaning of a word and the word itself are two separate things; by saying a word in two separate...

Students may discuss how men and women use language 'differently', by analysing a text in a number of ways. Students may examine differences in the following areas of language: lexis and semantics (the vo...

In your essay answers, your analysis should work at two levels. Firstly you should be 'zooming in' to analyse the text at an individual word level. Look for individual word choices and consider why the te...