Language of education

Question 1

give examples of occupation specific jargon

Answer 1

OCR
GCSE
KS3

Question 2

what pronoun do they use to refer to the school community

Answer 2

Referring to school as community ‘we’

Question 3

how do they show nurture

Answer 3

refer to the students as ‘children’ which aligns with the characteristics needed to be in the profession

Question 4

what does the headteacher use

Answer 4

Prosodic and paralinguistic features: headteacher may use serious tone and serious expression

‘goodafternoon ladies and gentlemen’ in a stern voice

Question 5

what time of sentence do teachers use

Answer 5

imperative sentences to exert instrumental and influential power
‘do this’ ‘close the cupboard’

Question 6

semantic and pragmatic meanings in letter from teachers to parents

Answer 6

semantics ‘children’s homework’ but pragmatics is that parents make the flapjacks- teachers need parental participants to sell, the word children’s is possessive