Grammar as a meaning-making resource
What Grammar as a meaning-making resource means in English Language A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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Labelling structures and explaining how they create effects, support meanings or position readers, rather than merely spotting them.
Analysing a text means labelling these shapes accurately and explaining the effects they create for a reader or listener.
Topics that use Grammar as a meaning-making resource
- Language diversity and change - Methods of language analysis (AQA A-Level)
- Language, the individual and society - Methods of language analysis (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Context
- Discourse
- Genre
- Graphology
- Mode
- Morphological structure of words
- Phrase and clause architecture
- Context and inferred meaning
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