English / Level 10 / Language / Language for interaction
Content description
Understand how language use can have inclusive and exclusive social effects, and can empower or disempower people
Elaborations
identifying language that seeks to align the listener or reader (for example 'of course', 'obviously', 'as you can imagine')
identifying the use of first person (I, we) and second person pronouns (you) to distance or involve the audience, for example in a speech made to a local cultural community
identifying references to shared assumptions
identifying appeals to shared cultural knowledge, values and beliefs
reflecting on experiences of when language includes, distances or marginalises others
creating texts that represent personal belief systems (such as credos, statements of ethical judgements, guidelines, letters to the editor and blog entries)
