Additional Key Terms

Question 1

Discourses

Answer 1

Can be used to refer to a mode of language, a register, a way of thinking about and presenting something.

Question 2

Narrative

Answer 2

A type of text or discourse that functions to tell a series of events. A narrative is the organisation of experience told by a narrator to any number of narratees.

Question 3

Positioning

Answer 3

How a text producer places or orientates him/herself to the subject being presented and towards the audience or reader being addressed

Question 4

Purpose

Answer 4

The intention or objective behind a text in terms of what it is designed to do and how it is used. Texts can have many different and overlapping purposes.

Question 5

Register

Answer 5

A variety of language that is associated with particular field of reference e.g occupational discourse. Register may be either written, spoken or multimodal.

Question 6

Representation

Answer 6

How experiences, views and ideas are ‘re-presented’ to readers, listeners and viewers through language and other meaning-making resources in order to influence their way of seeing the world.

Question 7

Style

Answer 7

The level of formality in a text. This can be seen as distinct from its register.