Look at the questions and make a comment that connects all or as many of the questions as

possible.
When answering each question specifically the tip is that you want to make a GENERAL
statement that\ue000s
acts as the Intro to the paragraph\ue001to frame this Intro you ask yourself what do I know
generally about
what the questions is asking for.

Using Module 2 from 2004 from Paper 2

There are many factors that influence a writer\ue000s language choice; some of these are the
context, the
audience and the message content. In Alicia Mc Kenzie\ue000s Pinkie this is certainly the case
as we see as the
choice of language is Creole in the Basilect variation.

a.The relation between language choice (Creole) and context/setting/situation (the beauty
parlour) : context influence language choice. The context in Communication refers to the place
(a hairdressing salon) and the grouping of people (interpersonal conversation).The term
language choice implies that there are other languages that could have been used but this was
specifically chosen. In this excerpt the language choice was creole in the Basilect and Mesolect
variation.Because the context is casual the language is casual. The persons in the conversation
are friends/acquaintances and as such they are comfortable to speak to each other in their
mother tongue. Creole is appropriate as Pinkie and Ms Daisy obviously are West Indians and as
such when the Creole is spoken by either of them it is understood.Examples are:

b.As with question (a) there are factors such as audience, content and nationality which when
taken into consideration lend to the appropriateness of a narrator\ue000s choice of language. In
this
case the narrator uses the Basilect variation as seen in \ue002 I start to tell her bout a whole heap
of

strikes in England ...\ue003. Who are the people who\ue000d read this? Most likely it will be
West Indians.

Pinkie was complaining about her birth country in creole and so one expects the narrator to
respond likewise in creole. Also there is a perception that creole will get the true meaning and
feelings across. For example in the opening sentence Pinkie says \ue002that is why this country
will

nevah get ahead, nevah get ahead.\ue000 A reader immediately knows that she is angry and in a

complaining mode. So it is appropriate because of these main reasons: they are West Indians
friends, the topic lends itself to complaint, and they are in a casual/informal setting.

c.Is Pinkie\ue000s language linguistically or non-linguistically motivated? How do we identify

linguistic

motivation? When we are asked for non linguistic factors you should write about such factors as

Phonetics \ue004 how the speaker articulates their speech sounds e.g. Guyanese roll their
\ue005r\ue000

And Trinidadians do not

Phonology -how the speaker systematically uses sounds in language / the sounds of words

Morphology \ue004 how words are structured or formed e.g. dog, yes, swing or un-happi-ness

Syntax \ue004 how the speaker constructs sentences or how words are organized e.g. phrases,

clauses, sentences

Semantics \ue004 how the speaker makes meaning of the words in the sentence e.g In the US
most

people refer to death as \ue005passed\ue000 whereas in Trinidad we say \ue005died\ue000or in

the US they say \ue005pop\ue000

for \ue002soda\ue000 and in Trinidad we say \ue002soft drink\ue000 or \ue002sweet

drink\ue001 and sometimes you may even

hear \ue002seet drink\ue001