Visual Grammar

Running at a bit of a lag between finishing the units and posting about them here. As difficult as it might be to believe I do try to put some thought into these things. However, to tide us over until I pull my finger out (and other ill-matched idioms) here, with particular regard to Kreuss and van Leeuwen's concepts of the demand and offer gazes, is the front cover of this year's first grade English Communication textbook -

Fill yer boots.

Spoken Discourse Three

A pleasingly practical unit, this one, so not much in the way of notes here, either. I would suggest, though, that the highest rank of discourse being the Lesson is arbitrary and artificial, and ignores concepts of curriculum planning and progression. The claim that it is possible to show ‘objectively’ where ‘one topic ends and another begins’ is also fairly brave.

Written Discourse Seven

When reading up about performatives, all I could think of was this –