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Textual Analysis. In this paper I will be using three texts for comparison and analysis.
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In this paper I will be using three texts for comparison and analysis. All three texts share two of the three situational contexts. They share the same field, potty training, and they share the same mode, i.e. all three are written texts. The only difference between the three texts is their tenor. The three texts target very different audiences.
The first text is a children’s book, My Big Girl Potty, and is therefore written so that children will understand and enjoy it. The second text is a parenting guide, The Girlfriends’ Guide to Toddlers, which is more of a conversational piece that is of interest to parents, and the third text is an article from the magazine The Lancet (a publication for the medical field), “Influence of potty training habits on dysfunctional bladder in children.” This article is meant for nurses, and in some cases doctors, to help them explain the importance of early potty training to their patients. I intend to show how, through the specific use of various nouns, pronouns, noun phrases, verbs, verb phrases, and active versus passive voice, these texts use grammar to appeal to their various audiences.
The first distinction that I noticed was in the children’s book. I noticed that it had very few pronouns. The very first line in the book reads, “Ashley is a little just your age” (Cole 1). I think that this is used to say to the child reading it, “This could be you.” Thus, the child would be more inclined to pay attention and carefully listen to what the author is saying. In the passage that I chose from the book Ashley is mentioned by name five times in the ten sentences of the paragraph (Cole 6 & 7). This style keeps the child focused on what the author is saying. Children are notorious for having short attention spans, so if the author wrote “she” in some of the places where she put the name Ashley, the child would be confused about to whom “she” is referring. And, the child would loose interest very...
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