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ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATUREA /AS Level for AQAStudent BookMarcello Giovanelli, Andrea Macrae, Felicity Titjen and Ian CushingSeries editor: Marcello Giovanelli

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Introduction p.4

Beginning1 What does the study of language and literature mean

at A Level?p.8

2 Text producers and receivers p.12

3 Mode and genre p.16

4 Variation, register and representation p.20

5 Narrative p.24

6 Language level 1: Lexis and semantics p.28

7 Language level 2: Grammar p.35

8 Language level 3: Phonetics, phonology and prosodics p.41

9 Language level 4: Graphology p.46

10 Language level 5: Pragmatics p.50

11 Language level 6: Discourse p.55

12 Analysing texts p.60

13 Literature and literariness p.64

14 Becoming an investigator p.68

DevelopingIntroduction to Telling stories p.70

15 Remembered places p.72

15.1 Introduction to the anthology p.72

15.2 Why Paris? p.73

15.3 Remembering places p.74

15.4 Re-creative writing and Remembered places p.77

15.5 Places, people and events p.80

15.6 Metaphor p.85

15.7 Genre p.89

15.8 Bringing it all together: AS Level p.100

15.9 Bringing it all together: A Level p.103

16 Imagined worlds p.107

16.1 The fantasy genre p.107

16.2 Setting up fictional worlds p.110

16.3 Characterisation p.118

16.4 Point of view p.127

16.5 Interpretations of fantasy p.133



17 Poetic voices p.144

17.1 Introduction p.144

17.2 The set texts and approaching the poetry anthology

p.149

17.3 Analysing poetry from a language perspective p.151

17.4 Voice p.154

17.5 Voice in poetry through time p.162

17.6 Language and poetic voice p.165



Introduction to Exploring conflict p.183

18 Writing about society p.186

18.1 Literature, society and re-creative writing p.186

18.2 Re-creative writing, from the exploratory and experimental to the targeted and strategic

p.192

18.3 Commentary: analytical explanations of re-creative writing

p.207

18.4 Bringing it all together p.211

19 Dramatic encounters p.214

19.1 Exploring conflict p.214

19.2 Representing turn-taking p.220

19.3 Representing speech and meaning p.223

19.4 Exploring dramatic conventions p.225

19.5 Psychological and social drama: Williams, Miller and Kinnear

p.228

19.6 Creating characters p.231

19.7 Power and positioning p.234

19.8 The importance of politeness p.239

19.9 Exploring themes p.242


20 Making connections p.247

20.1 What is Making connections? p.247

20.2 Choosing connections p.248

20.3 Thinking about texts p.248

20.4 Thinking about non-literary connections p.250

20.5 Thinking about topics p.251

20.6 Choosing methodologies p.253

20.7 Data collection methods p.254

20.8 Ethical considerations p.255

20.9 Working with spoken data p.255

20.10 How much literary and non-literary material? p.257

20.11 Devising research questions p.258

20.12 Selecting language levels p.260

20.13 Analysis: structuring connections p.260

20.14 Reading and writing critically p.261

20.15 Academic conventions: References p.264

20.16 Exploring connections p.265

20.17 Keeping context in mind p.266


Enriching21 Remembered places p.275

22 Imagined worlds p.280

23 Poetic voices p.287

24 Writing about society p.291

25 Dramatic encounters p.298

26 Making connections p.303

References p.306Index p.307

Acknowledgements p.309

Contents

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IntroductionWelcome to this student book for your AQA A/AS Level English Language and Literature course!

The AQA English Language and Literature AS/A Level specifications promote a fully integrated vision for the subject where the same methods of analysis, skills and frameworks can be used to explore both literary and non-literary texts. This student book supports AQA’s vision by giving you the tools to be able to analyse the language of all kinds of texts, literary and non-literary, precisely and with confidence. Covering the specification, and supported by an enhanced digital edition on the Cambridge Elevate platform, this book also:• develops your expertise in understanding and

discussing the key underpinning principles of the AQA specifications: genre; narrative; point of view; register; representation and the whole question of ‘literariness’

• supports the essential skills of text analysis and academic and creative writing in coherent, lively and engaging ways

• supports co-teachability by helping you to work your way through the course in a clear and logical way, whether you are studying AS or A Level.

This student book supports the specifications and helps you to develop the different skills you will be assessed on – skills which will stand you in good stead beyond AS or A Level, whatever you go on to do.

About the specificationsThe AS Level specification has two components:

Paper 1: Views and voices

What it is: In this component you will learn about how and why views and perspectives of different kinds are shaped and used in narratives.

You will also learn how language choices help to shape the representations of different worlds and perspectives in prose fiction that constructs imaginary worlds and poetry that constructs a strong sense of personal perspective.

How it is assessed: 1½ hour exam worth 50% of your AS.

Beginning unit

Developing unit

Enriching unit

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Paper 2: People and places

What it is: In this component you will learn about the ways in which writers and speakers present narratives about Paris using the AQA Anthology and consider why and how people tell stories about places. You will also produce re-creative work and write a critical reflection on your writing.

How it is assessed: 1½ hour exam worth 50% of your AS.

The A Level specification has three components:

Paper 1: Telling stories

What it is: In this component you will learn about how and why stories of different kinds are told and the ways in which writers and speakers present stories. You will explore these questions by studying narratives that construct different views of Paris (using the AQA Anthology), prose fiction that constructs imaginary worlds and poetry that constructs a strong sense of personal perspective.

How it is assessed: 3 hour exam worth 40% of your A Level.

Paper 2: Exploring conflict

What it is: In this component you will learn about how language choices help to construct ideas of conflict between people, and between people and their societies. You will explore concepts such as power and identity and analyse the ways that interactions are presented in texts. You will produce re-creative work that seeks to find an absent or underplayed perspective in a novel, write a critical reflection on your work and study drama that explores conflicts at different levels from the domestic to the societal.

How it is assessed: 2½ hour exam worth 40% of your A Level.

Non-exam assessment: Making connections

What it is: In this component you will explore language use in different types of text. You will investigate connections between a literary text and some non-literary material based either on a chosen theme or on the idea that particular linguistic strategies and features may occur in the different types of material. You will produce an academic report outlining your research and your findings.

How it is assessed: one piece of non-exam assessment worth 20% of your A Level.

Key terms box

space: a location in terms of its co-ordinates on a map

place: a location that is given significance and value through being a site of interaction with others, full of important events and personal memories

culture: a set of practices that involve shared ways of thinking and acting and which attach value to material objects of various kinds

society: a group of people working and living in a specific location who act out cultural beliefs and practices

Key terms

Icons used in the book

Cross reference

Key terms

Glossary

Check your responses

Video

Summary

Cambridge Elevate 3rd party website

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About this student bookThis book follows an innovative three-part structure:

Part 1: Beginning units These set out the key principles, issues and concepts that underpin the course and support you as you move from GCSE to AS and A Level work. Each Beginning unit contains activities to check understanding and progress, and provides a strong foundation from which to build upwards. The Beginning units can also be used as a stand-alone reference point to which you’ll return when studying content in subsequent Developing units, and for revision purposes as you prepare for your exams.

Part 2: Developing units These longer units are based around the main content in the AS and A Level specifications. They are designed to build on the ideas introduced in the Beginning units, extending knowledge and understanding where appropriate. These units follow the order of topics in the AQA specifications and contain a wider range of activities to develop skills and encourage independence. The start of each Developing unit tells you whether the content is suitable for AS, A Level or both.

Each Developing unit covers the most up-to-date content and research, which is presented in an accessible and engaging way. Many of the activities in these units are supported by commentaries that will support your learning and help you to develop an analytical framework, with which you can consider topic areas more critically and broadly.

These units also contain a ‘Bringing it all together’ section, which allows you to review key learning for a particular topic and to plan your revision priorities. In addition, practice questions and discussion of the assessment objectives allow you to apply your learning and to think about the demands of individual sections within the exam papers.

Bringing it all together

Deconstructing exam questions

End-of-unit summary

• Texts are part of larger discourse events that involve real-life text producers and receivers communicating and interpreting in specific times and places.

• Texts can have more than one purpose; it is useful to distinguish between primary and secondary purposes.

• Text producers and receivers often have constructs called implied readers and writers in mind; in reality, the actual readers and writers may be very different.

Summary

A/AS Level English Language and Literature transcription key Throughout this book the following transcription key is applied: (.) indicates a pause of less than a second(2) indicates a longer pause (number of seconds

indicated)Bold indicates stressed syllables or words: : indicates elongation of a word((italics)) indicates contextual or additional information[ ] indicates the start and end points of

simultaneous speech

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Part 3: Enriching units Designed specifically for A Level students but with content that AS Level students will also find useful, these units support your work on the specification and extend your thinking beyond the topics covered in the Developing units in Part 2. These Enriching units contain extension activities on Developing unit topics, as well as ideas for extended independent study, details of wider reading that you will find useful and summaries of recent and relevant research from higher education.

The Enriching units also feature short articles exclusively written for this series by leading academics and professionals, with follow-up questions that offer expert insight into certain aspects of the subject.

About Cambridge ElevateCambridge Elevate is the platform which hosts a digital version of this Student Book. If you have access to this digital version you can annotate different parts of the book, send and receive messages to and from your teacher and insert weblinks, among other things. You will also find video content on Cambridge Elevate, specifically: • Tutorial-style videos, designed to complement

material covered in the Developing units and which will refresh your knowledge while broadening your understanding of certain tricky concepts;

• Interviews with leading thinkers and researchers in their fields, which provide a unique resource for stimulating discussion.

I hope you enjoy your AS or A Level Language and Literature course as well as this book, and wish you well for the journey ahead.

Marcello Giovanelli Series editor

Tutorial Video available on Cambridge Elevate

Enriching Interview Video available on Cambridge Elevate

Links to video content on Cambridge Elevate

Watch tutorial video, Sounds and Aesthetics, on Cambridge Elevate

Watch Peter Stockwell, Professor of Literary Linguistics at the University of Nottingham, talk about story worlds in science fiction on Cambridge Elevate

Find further examples of intertextuality in advertising via Cambridge Elevate

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