Part 1:  Identifying Theme and Rheme

 

Answer BRIEFLY the questions which follow the text

 

 

Text – ABBA “The Album” Review

 

By 1977, ABBA was perhaps the biggest band in the world. Their list of top 10 hits was already endless, and the band had undertaken several world conquering tours. After creating a perfect and a near perfect album, it’s not surprising the band had taken a little break and the quality of their records suffered a little. After all, who has time to write, arrange and produce continually top of the line records in between television performances, concert tours and movie making? Apparently, ABBA had time: the boys and gals marshal their forces and create another essentially perfect album. “The Album” is the culmination of all the work they’d done at this point and is the high point in their catalog. It’s such a beautiful, fully realized album that the band’s later immersion into a more synthesized and even disco based sound could only be a let down. But where could the band go after this? It’s not like the band could really repeat the success by topping themselves. They push their fusion of classical, folk, rock, pop and funk style as far as humanely possible by fusing it with another genre they’d only lightly flirted with in the past: progressive art rock. This isn’t to say that ABBA suddenly starts writing 20 minute progressive suites dedicated to armadillo tanks. Sad to say, ABBA’s lyrics are actually better than Greg Lake’s in that they actually do make some kind of concrete sense and aren’t just profundity for the sake of profundity. The band is still writing catchy pop. However, their arrangements and ambitions thicken up a bit, reaching near Beach Boy or Beatles level. This makes “The Album” this their most “serious” album and the album that is the easiest to take seriously in their catalog. https://culturefusionreviews.com/2012/09/10/abba-the-album-review/

 

Question 1 (100 words)

 

Based on your analysis, VERY BRIEFLY describe the way the text has been organised. Specifically comment on the types of Themes and consider the text type.

 

 

Question 2 (100 words)

 

Briefly evaluate this table as a pedagogic tool to teach students about textual meanings in discourse.

 

Text B

Clause	textual	interpersonal	marked topical	unmarked topical
	Theme				Rheme
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PART 2 – TRANSITIVITY

 

Text :

 

||| The twelve stories in this book were written over the last eighteen years. ||| Before they reached their current form, || five of them had been journalistic notes and screenplays, || and one was a television serial. ||| Fifteen years ago I recounted another during a taped interview with a friend [[who transcribed || and published the story]], || and now I’ve rewritten it on the basis of his version. ||| This has been a strange creative experience [[ that should be explained]], if only so that children [[who want || to be writers || when they grow up]] will know [[how insatiable and abrasive the writing habit can be]].|||

 

(from the Prologue of Gabriel García Márquez’s Strange Pilgrims)

 

 

Question (50 words).

 

Based on your analysis, very briefly describe and explain how the author has construed the world of writing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ONLY analyse the text in bold

DO NOT analyse the lines in italics

 

Text F

 

 

 

Early this morning I drove in the rain

Out to the airport to get on the plane

Hey Honolulu, I’m going to happy Hawaii

Alice has been there, she said it was fun

Swimming and surfing, enjoying the sun

Hey Honolulu, I’m going to happy Hawaii

 

After all I’ve had to go through

I’m making no plans (making no plans oh-ooh)

But I, but I believe love gives me a second chance

 

Guess I’ve been working a little too hard

Need a vacation, I’ll send you a card

From Honolulu, a greeting from happy Hawaii

 

It’s so exciting, why should I pretend

In a few hours the plane will descend

Hey Honolulu, I’m going to happy Hawaii

I can imagine the beach and the sand

Walking with someone and holding his hand

Hey Honolulu, I’m going to happy Hawaii

After all I’ve had to go through

I’m making no plans (making no plans oh-ooh)

But I, but I believe love gives me a second chance

 

I’ve got a feeling the dream will come true

Somebody’s waiting and I’ll forget you

Hey Honolulu, I’m going to happy Hawaii

 

(Adapted lyrics for Happy Hawaii by ABBA)

 

 

Question (70 words)

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Based on your own experience when undertaking your transitivity analysis, briefly outline some of the implications of teaching functional grammar through this song? Consider clause boundaries, ellipsis, ambiguity, etc.