General

Question 1

Stylistics?

Answer 1

A study focusing on lang choices which lead to interpretations of key themes/possible effects achieved (also the motivation behind these choices)

Question 2

Context - what three things are involved with the context of a written text?

Answer 2

Text producer, text receiver, and the discourse

Question 3

Context - what is an event?

Answer 3

Act of communication between text producer and text receiver, occurring at a specific time

Question 4

Purpose - what is a multi-purpose text?

Answer 4

A text with more than one purpose

Question 5

Purpose - what is the secondary purpose?

Answer 5

Additional purpose to primary purpose and sometimes more subtle

Question 6

Audience - what is the implied reader/writer?

Answer 6

The constructed image of the ideal reader or writer who fits the central themes/beliefs

Question 7

Audience - Discourse community?

Answer 7

A group of people with shared interests/beliefs, likely to respond to texts similarly

Question 8

Mode?

Answer 8

The physical channel of communication

Question 9

Mode - continuum?

Answer 9

A more subtle approach to differences between modes, considering features which see written and speech as a continuum

Question 10

Mode - prototype model?

Answer 10

What is used when looking for the typical and less typical features within a text (a text with all expected features of speech would fit the prototype of a spoken text)

Question 11

Genre?

Answer 11

A way of grouping texts based upon shared characteristics and expected conventions

Question 12

Genre - intertextuality?

Answer 12

A process by which texts borrow or refer to aspects of other texts to create effects/purposes (an advert employing characteristics of a blog)

Question 13

Register?

Answer 13

The variety of language associated with a particular situation of use

Question 14

Register - situational characteristic?

Answer 14

A key characteristic of the place/time and context within which the communication took place

Question 15

What do all of these terms come under? - colloquialisms, idioms, slang, taboo

Answer 15

Formality

Question 16

Register - what are idioms?

Answer 16

Cultural expressions with non obvious meanings from the language (e.g. kicked the bucket)

Question 17

Taboo?

Answer 17

Offensive

Question 18

Narrative?

Answer 18

A text which presents a coherent series of events/characters

Question 19

Homodiegetic narrator?

Answer 19

1st person narrative, narrator is also a character in the story

Question 20

External heterodiegetic narrator?

Answer 20

3rd person narrative, narrator outside of the events of the story

Question 21

Internal heterodiegetic narrator?

Answer 21

3rd person narrative account, narration is filtered through the thoughts/feelings of a character in the story

Question 22

Time frame?

Answer 22

The positioning of the narrative within past/present/future

Question 23

Narrative discourse?

Answer 23

The ways of representing the aspects of a story through language/structure choices (e.g. a car accident told by the victims parents and the policeman would be very different)

Question 24

Additional events?

Answer 24

Secondary events that are not necessary to overall story but are included for different reasons

Question 25

Gap filling?

Answer 25

Readers provide a sense of meaning to individual words/phrases based on global knowledge and similar narrative templates

Question 26

Tellability?

Answer 26

Features of a story making it worth reading; if high tellability: presenting material in interesting, engaging way (e.g. hyperbole would increase a texts tellability)