CAPE Communication Studies · 2008 (T&T) · Paper 2 · Question 2

An excerpt from V. S. Naipaul's 'B. Wordsworth' (from 'Miguel Street') where a polite, well-spoken stranger visits a boy and his mother offering to watch bees and sell a poem.

In an essay of no more than 500 words, discuss the following: (a) The dialectal variation used in the passage (b) The effect that B. Wordsworth has on: (i) the boy (ii) his mother (c) How film would effectively capture the communicative behaviours in this excerpt.