http://www.cosmopolitan.co.uk/travel/luxury-breaks/cosmo_goes_greek_at_the_peligoni_club_in_zante
The audience for this article would be young female due the the fact that the article is featured in a female orientated magazine. The nature of the article appears to accommodate the age range, in my opinion, of 30+ but does entirely depend upon the likes and dislikes of each person in question. For example, the article makes describes how the recommended accommodation is 'far far away from the pumping, tequila shot bars on the other side of the island.' This leads me to believe that an someone in their thirties may not be as interested in drinking and dancing, respectively. The article also attempts to portray a relaxing holiday which typically would be associated with someone of this age.
The article as a whole acts persuasively by advertising the resort but does it in a way that is enticing to the reader as it acts a review but actually is completed in order to advertise.
Glamorous pictures have been used to once again create a spectacular image in the mind of the reader again working to promote the resort once again.
Exaggeration is used throughout to persuade the reader to want to visit. In fact, the 'jaw-dropping Figari' may not be as 'jaw-dropping' as described. The use of alliteration throughout sentences again acts persuasively whilst humorous asides throughout in brackets once again acts enticingly whilst also being entertaining.
The continual use of adjectives throughout also work very persuasively.
This is a properly investigative post, George, as you're probing subtexts and exploring pragmatic factors in thetext. Your use of subject-speciofic terminology is impressive and I like your choice of quotations - you're pulling the text into managable chunks to make specific points about how it's been constructed to creat an effect.
ReplyDeleteTarget: work on replacing the generic term 'words' with the specific labels each of the lexis or grammatical units you're 'zooming in' on requires. The work we're doing o verbs will help you to be more precisie in your analysis, as will the (sometimes quite intimidating) set of new grammatical terms we'll be focusing on in forthcoming lessons.