Graphology & Orthography
English Language: AQA A Level, topic 1.5.2
Graphology and Orthography
Graphology is all about how a text appears. Orthography is all about spelling.
Graphology
- Graphology is all about how a text appears.
- For example, you may look at how a webpage makes it easy for a user to navigate, how font distinguishes certain areas of a text or capital letter use.
- Graphology is valued by examiners, but lexical analysis is probably valued more highly.
Graphology - capital letters
- For example, if a headline contains the words ‘MUST READ’, you may talk about how the norms have been manipulated.
Orthography
- Orthography is all about spelling.
- You will not particularly use this language level largely in textual analysis until you start studying ‘Children’s Language Development’.
- But you may still wish to look at text producers using non-standard spellings for an effect.
Test yourself on Graphology & Orthography
You want to comment on the following headline:
"May in Brexit HELL hole".
What area of language analysis does the capital letter use fall under?