The Geography of Thought

Apologies for the lack of updates. I've settled on an essay from the Lexis module and am focussing on that right now. Family holiday scheduled for the end of July and it's going to be fraught enough without having to proofread stuff right before we leave. I'm almost done with the actual Sociolingusitics units. They're utterly fascinating, so it's a bit of a shame that none of the assessment questions quite hold my interest in the same way. I'll definitely be posting about them soon enough though.

In the meantime I actually read that book I mentioned in my post on Lexis Two and, as predicted, loathed it. I was going to post about it at length here but it quickly became apparent that even by the low standards I've set for myself on this blog I wasn't going to be able to maintain even the slightest hint of authorial impartiality. So I've put it up over at my other blog. Here it is, in all its sweary glory -

The Geography of Thought

Sociolinguistics Four

Here we go, boys and girls: Language and Gender. This is the big one.

Lexis Eight

1.    Style

So it appears we come back to this again. ‘Style,’ which I can’t help but feel is very much like pornography – no-one can really define it, but we all know it when we see it.

“They are used for stylistic variation… [t]his can be problematic for learners, particularly where their first language does not use stylistic (elegant) variation to the same extent.”

Lexis Seven

1. He sleeps like a baby 

He wakes up screaming every three hours having pissed himself.

Thank you, thank you. I’ll be here all week. Don’t forget to tip your waitress…