What is your investigation and what you hope to find out?
I have decided to do my A2 English Language investigation looking at the language change in Vogue Editor's letters, I will look at editor's letters from certain eras. I hope to find out that there is a significant change within the languages throughout the years, which maybe represent the views of the era at that time.
Why did you decide to do this investigation?
I have chosen this investigation as I have an interest in fashion and I like looking through magazines. With my sources that I have, I think that I could collect interesting and helpful data to help me with the project.
What aspects of the course it has sprung out of?
There is a few aspects in which my investigation has sprung out of, firstly is language change. However I could also incorporate language and gender to see if there are gender stereotypes within the writing.
What data will you need to gather and how are you going to set about this?
I will need to collect editor's letters from Vogue magazines throughout different eras. I will look in the Vogue archive, available through Moodle. The Vogue archive will be a use tool to use as it has a wide range of data available.
What theorists you think will be valuable to give you a perspective on what you might hope to find or for suggestions of a methodology to use when gathering your data sample?
I will focus on language change, however within that I think the language and gender theorists could be helpful within my investigation, for example Lakoff, Tannen etc. These will help as I can see within the text to see if the gender values have changed throughout time.
