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2023 Intro To Lang A-Level
2023 Intro To Lang A-Level
(Later)
• Review what language data YOU would like to investigate yourself…
• How could linguistic perspective complement literary studies; or GCSE English Literature?
• What could you do to raise awareness of English Language studies?
• The English Project (Winchester) – look out for ‘English Language Day’ (ELD)
• https://youtu.be/3tNqyuOAzrs David Crystal, ELD 2020 – ‘The New Normal’
• https://twitter.com/CaptainDiction semi-regular English linguistics tweets
TEXT A: Corpus of cocktail names
TEXT B: Two speakers playing Halo,
Xbox Live.
TEXT C: An advert from Guardian Weekend magazine
(AQA Exam Text)
TEXT D: Transcript of a radio advert for tea
(AQA Exam text)
TEXT E: ‘Broadside’ relating an inquest, 1830
Somerset Heritage Centre (SWHT)
Thanks for listening and for your ideas and getting involved!
If there’s time – happy to have questions or to keep in touch, spreading the word…
marcusb@richuish.ac.uk