Language Scrapbook 2

The Genre of this piece of text is clearly the first page of children’s story book. This is evident due to the large and illustrated O, signifying the beginning of the book. The discourse of layout also justifies the story theme, and friendly illustrations at the bottom of the page convey a pirate themed story.

Due the ‘hand drawn’ illustrations of pirates makes it clear the audience in this text is children, possibly a male dominated audience due to the gender feud within the text, implying that girls are bossy, ‘she makes us do this’ etc. The grammar used including the complexity of sentences and sentence lengths is evident in portraying an audience of a child as they will be learning new words and phrases also having full attention towards the story.

The purpose of the text is to entertain children be for bed-time. This is clear within the use of lexis in the book. Including the use of slang words to create a vision of the pirate characters before a child goes to sleep. What follows this is the context of reception, as children usually do not read their own bed- time books, so the slang phonology of lexis including ‘sick o’ ‘wi’ will be read by parents in a pirate voice, simplifying the text to a child’s understandment. The other phonology which conveys the context of reception is the use of alliteration and rhyme throughout, this makes the story lighter and easier on the ear to listen to making it appropriate for a bedtime story.

During the context of production, the writers of this book have used many techniques to appeal to its genre, audience, purpose, and context of reception. The book was produced online, however made to look ‘hand drawn’ with the illustrations and the text discourse on an old treasure map. They have done this to create a more interesting look to their book, as the children will look at the images and illustrations whilst the parents will read all of the interesting phonology to the child to engage them within the story.