Context, Register and Purpose

Question 1

What are some social purposes for a text

Answer 1

-encourage intimacy
-Support in-group membership
-Reinforce social distance/authority
-establish expertise
-negotiate social taboo
-build rapport (rel/ship good)
-promote social harmony
-to clarify, manipulate or obfuscate (make something unclear)

Question 2

What does ttCRAPsTt stand for?

Answer 2

tt=Text Type
C=Context
R=Register
A=Audience
P=Purpose
s=Social purpose
T=Tone
t=tenor

Question 3

What are some tone words? (give at least 5 different ones)

Answer 3

serious; passionate; enthusiastic; authoritative; sympathetic; comedic; encouraging; light-hearted; direct; solemn etc.

Question 4

What are some purposes? (give at least 8 different ones)

Answer 4

to express; to establish identity; to instruct; to clarify; to educate; to question; to mock; to amuse; to promote; to advertise; to target; to organize etc.

Question 5

What is situational and contextual context?

Answer 5

Situational = where
Contextual = topic of text (what)

Question 6

What are some features in context?

Answer 6

• Topic management (spoken texts mostly)
• Turn Taking (SPOKEN ONLY)
• Navigation and organization (written texts mostly)
• How participants interact with each other
• Coherence (semantic field, conventions e.g subheadings etc.)
• MUST HAVE A PROSODIC FEATURE IN THERE SOMEWHERE!!)
• Non-fluency features (e.g. spontaneity)

Question 7

What are some things you can link to for context?

Answer 7

• Mode (written or spoken)
• Audience (how language aims for a specific audience)
• Identity
• Situational (where)
• Contextual (what)

Question 8

What are some formal “go too’s” for formal register?

Answer 8

• Jargon
• Elevated lexemes (2+ egs.)
• Euphemism
• Passive

Question 9

What are some “go too’s” for informal register?

Answer 9

• Colloquialism/slang
• Diphenism
• Fragments
• Any on-standard orthography
• Ellipsis (deletion of words)

Question 10

What are some features of purpose (excluding social ones)?

Answer 10

• MUST INCLUDE A PROSDIC FEATURE!!
• Sentence types (dec. imp. int. exc.)
• Meaning behind a specific vocab choice

Question 11

What are some links to purpose?

Answer 11

• What a participant hopes to achieve in a text
• Reason/ motivation/ agenda behind a participants choices (conscious
  and subconscious

Question 12

How do you start off a context paragraph?

Answer 12

The ;language features in this ….(text type)…..on …..(Sit. context)…. reflects the ……(nature/context).

Question 13

How do you start off a register paragraph?

Answer 13

The stylistic features of the …(text type)…. reflects the …(register).

Question 14

How do you start off a purpose paragrpah?

Answer 14

The language users draw on a number of stylistic choices to [purpose 1] the audience whilst also [purpose 2]

Question 15

What is cultural context?

Answer 15

The culture you are in and the views and values supported in that culture (e.g taboo = death in western society therefore euphemize it)