It's Yasmin here again and today's blog is on the most interesting piece of text I have seen so far to explain. I feel that the piece of text that I've seen that really uses a range of techniques and language levels is one from a children's book named "Captain Prue and Her Scurvy Crew". The part of the text is the opening paragraph and has many language features that stand out to have an impact on the implied reader.
Firstly, we note that the genre of the text is a children's novel due to the most often opening line of "One morning" which is typically how novels begin, especially children's ones so we can recognize it from the start. We also look out for techniques often incorporated into children's books such as alliteration, speech and sounds to make the novel more interesting for the audience. In this case, as stated, the audience intended is the younger generation, most likely very young children which will be read to by their parents or another more advanced reader due to the words "groused" and "griped" as I don't think children would be able to read this yet but their advanced reader reading it to them would put emphasis on the words because of the use of alliteration. Also I think that the reader of the book would emphasize the use of speech in the text by saying it in the stereotypical way that a pirate would with words such as "aar" and "o'" instead of the word "of" to make the story more fun for the audience.
Next, the purpose of the text is to keep young children entertained, the author does this well because of the use of phonology in the text that will keep the child interested in what is happening in the novel. For example a child is much more likely to be entertained by a fictional book containing alliteration, jokes and sounds than a factual book. An example of this would be that in Captain Prue and Her Scurvy Crew even in the title there is words that rhyme and it almost rolls of your tongue which will make a younger person want to read it, also there are illustrations but that is more to do with the design. The language is purposely simple could be relatable for a young child when "Dangerous Dan" decides he is bored of foods for example 'sprouts'. I think by using sprouts the author knew that most kids do not appreciate them. The purpose could also to be to give the actual reader a laugh not just the audience listening to the reader.
The text was created in the year of 1995 therefore the context of production makes me think that the language was different back then and didn't have as many words as there are today. However a limitation would have been there wasn't much technology around meaning that it might have been more difficult to research about the book before it was created or while creating the book.
The context of reception of the novel would most likely be an adult or more advanced reader telling the story to a younger child most likely primary school age. The text is written yet would be read out loud most likely due to sound affects that have been put in the novel to add effect on the intended audience of young people with an adult reading. I think that an adult reading the novel to someone younger would be beneficial for the child to learn language and new words, phrases and how to use their voice when emphasising text. Isn't it beneficial for you when you have someone to correct you on your mistakes? Otherwise you won't be able to learn without making them!
In conclusion I think that the short snap of the story was super in demonstrating how techniques and language is used to convey to their readers wants and intended audience and abilities. I think the piece of writing gave humour and a range of sentences containing alliteration, relatable subjects and phonetics giving the overall atmosphere a childish and entertaining genre.
That's it for my language scrapbook today!
