Investigate replacements of paralinguistic features within texts.
Take a huge sample of different texts, this will ensure reliability.
Will have to maybe make sure the subject the texts are about are the same?
However it could indicate different ages use different features or gender may effect the paralinguistic features.
Choose random texts to write about by numbering them and rolling a dice to choose. However still talk about the ones that stand out afterwards eg:'if I included text ? in this it would....'
Have to make sure everyone's texts used have said its okay to use them.
Try and mitigate the observers paradox by getting permission then talking about things and after a while of talking start talking of the subject I want and hopefully they will have forgotten that I'm going to be using their texts.
This could work as I have family that live in different countries and friends from all over the country however getting enough texts to ensure it is reliable would be difficult.
Investigate the language used by websites that are aimed at different ages.
Look at a website aimed at a primary school student (CBBC) and a website aimed at a older generation (BBC Iplayer) can look at the pages layouts, language used, links, adverts ect.
May have to look at other websites, but they will have to be similar like these two are TV programmes from the same channel aimed at different audiences to ensure its fair. And will have to make sure the websites are aimed at the same ages eg primary children and adults.
This could work however it might be difficult to find lots of websites to ensure its reliable.
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