A prescriptive attitude, you may remember, judges whether something is right/wrong, good/bad, progress/decline etc. We want to look at attitudes to Language Change: it is a key element of this A2 topic.
This article clearly shows a prescriptive attitude. It also explains an idea about language to non-linguists and, as such, is an excellent example of the kind of text you have to write as part of your A2 coursework.
Remember that the language idea(s) you inform readers of need to be on the same general topic as the theory you have chosen from for your investigation, so this would be a suitable media text to write if you were looking at any Language Change investigation e.g. something linked like 'How are emojis used to enhance written text in a range of a teenagers' Facebook statuses from 2013-2015?' or something completely separate from Language Change e.g. 'How did desktop publishing affect the production of two Lord of the Rings fanzines between 1970 and 1990?'. As long as both the investigation and media text are linked by the overall theory area, they can be about quite different things.
The important factors are that the content should inform on language theory and be engaging/accessible for its target audience (who must not have a linguistic study background e.g. teachers but not Language teachers, Guardian readers but not Guardian Language section readers).
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