The Sexist Surcharge - How women get ripped off on the highstreet

http://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2016/jan/19/the-sexist-surcharge-how-women-get-ripped-off-on-the-high-street

3D's: Difference Model

"There are gender differences in ways of speaking, and we need to identify and understand them" - Deborah Tannen

The difference theory is one of the aspect of linguistics that specialists in examining the effect that gender has on language.

How to talk to anyone: The experts' guide

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/nov/28/how-to-talk-to-anyone-the-experts-guide

This article gives an in depth analysis and explanation on how to talk to different types of people, including: children and teenagers, strangers, your doctor, your date, your parents and your boss. Collectively the break down in personal and specific language generates an expert how to guide on how to talk to any kind of person. The guide includes an analysis on why these genres of people speak and like to be spoken to the way that they do, relating to personality and general characteristics

Step away from your phone: The new rules of conversation

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/nov/28/step-away-from-your-phone-the-new-rules-of-conversation

This article explores the changing and shaping of face-to-face conversations in modern society. It looks at a fairly new concept about the takeover of online conversations. One in particular being "Phubbing", which is a term used to describe when someone is having a conversation with someone in real life, and at the same time, talking to somebody else on their phone. This terminology has been linked to the way that young people are growing up being able to use technology in a more advanced way, for example typing on their devices without looking at their screens.

The 3D's: The 3 Theories About Language and Gender

Dominance: Zimmerman and West (1987)

This is the theory that in mixed-sex conversations men are more likely to interrupt than women, or in other words, to dominate the  conversation.

• Positions of power: Competitive and  cooperative
• "Men are assertive of their power, and women are friendly and sociable"

Difference: Deborah Tannen (1990)

The difference theory states that the male and female races are culturally different, which reflects on their language and the way they speak to people that are either of the same or of a different gender.

• "Men's conversation is message-oriented, based upon communicating information"
• "Women's conversation is much more important for building relationships and strengthening social links"

Deficit: Robin Lakoff (1975)

The deficit theory hones in on the idea that one language in inferior to the other, or in the case of gender-specific language, the way that men or women talk in a variety of situations.

• "Male language is stronger, more prestigious and more desirable"
• "Women are socialised into behaving like 'ladies'"

English Language AQA Exam Questions

Language varieties paper
http://filestore.aqa.org.uk/resources/english/AQA-77012-SQP.PDF

Paper commentary
http://filestore.aqa.org.uk/resources/english/AQA-77012-COM.PDF

Student responses
http://filestore.aqa.org.uk/resources/english/AQA-77012-CEX.PDF

Bristol University: Guide to Grammar

http://www.bristol.ac.uk/arts/exercises/grammar/grammar_tutorial/index.htm

A.       Handy for revision

B.       Punctuation/Structure

-          How the text is laid out, how the paragraphs are formed, order of the text

-          Graphology

-          Discourse

-          FPA

-          Syntax (sentences) compound, complex, simple

-          Utterance

-          Imperative (command)

-          Interrogative (question)

-          Exclamative (exclamation)

-          Declarative (to declare)

C.       Common confusions

-          Homophones

-          Lexis

-          Semantics

-          Pragmatics

D.       Exam responses

E.        Pitfalls and problems

-          Grammar

-          Lexis

F.        Style

-          FPA

G.       Handy for revision