1. What type of text is it? What is its Title? Website address?

This text type is a review. The title is called : Apple iPhone 11 review.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVpkbiQ9E4c

2. Who are the primary and secondary target audience? (age, gender, ethnicity, interests etc)

For the target audience, since this product is globally known, the audience can be anyone, but in this case; reviews of technologies are for people who keeps their eye on new, fresh technologies. These reviews could also be for people who are looking for a new smartphone or interested in this product and they are researching of the product. Since price of Apple products are relatively high, a general audience is focused on adults and more mature people. This review is for both men and woman.

3. What is the text’s primary purpose and secondary purposes?

The primary purpose for this review is to explain the new revolutions of this product and all the new things and designs. To explain and compare the new phone with its predecessor. For the secondary purpose, this review can not only provide knowledge and information but can entertain ceretain audiences and they are purely interested in topics like this.

4. What contextual aspects of the text are important? (year, location, political background, economic background, social factors etc)

The exact day of release is Oct 3, 2019, As the adapter they used is a two plug adapter, so they location they are in is Europe. Because Europe is quite wealthy, they are able to buy high-end phones and review them in youtube, but reviews like these can be made by anyone, so the political background does not affect the review.

5. What important language / linguistic devices contribute to the text’s purpose? – register (colloquial, formal, semi-formal, slang), taboo language, emotive language, vague language, jargon, figurative diction, descriptive diction, direct comments, specific details and examples, humour, euphemisms, bias, sensationalism, satire, irony, choice of lexis/diction, discourse markers, propaganda, rhetoric etc)

The language and formality used is quite formal as they are trying to keep their review professional. They give very detailed information about the product.

6. Is phonology important? (the sounds of language, think onomatopoeia)

In this context, No because it is not a story that needs to be imagined, it is being watched and anything that they want to show can be displayed through youtube.

7. Is syntax important? (sentence length, sentence construction, punctuation)

It is quite important as they are mostly talking about the product and whether the audience wants to leave the review or not depends on thesentence length. The reviewer needs to keep things short snd sweet in order to keep the audience entertained as well as informed.

8. Is grammar important? (verb tenses, use of pronouns, the structure of the sentences)

Ofcourse. In order for the audiences to understand how the product has improved or the details and information about the product, grammar needs to be decent. The reviewer uses connectives like : But, moving on and however. He also uses pronouns like "you", for example, he says "If you buy the 64Gb, you might run out of space"

9. What about pragmatics? (the underlying meaning, the author's agenda)

10. Is typography/graphology important? Why? (a text's layout, presentation, use of paragraphs, lists, 'bullets', font choices, underlining, italics, white space, colours, perspectives, framing, proportions etc)

No.

11. Visual images, charts and graphics?

It displays the iPhone in different angle to give the audience a different perspective of the phone, whether it is the front screen or the rear, sometimes he even zooms in to a particular part of the phone to give a more detailed look on the part. The reviewer shows B-rolls (extra footage captured to enrich the story you're telling) which makes what the reviewer is saying a lot easier to understand. After the B-rolls, he shows specs of the phone in a table, giving you all the technical information within the phone.

12. Other striking features? style? theme? etc

13. Tone and tone shifts?