glossary

Question 1

What Is The Definition Of Genre?

Answer 1

A way of grouping texts based on expected shared conventions

Question 2

What is the definition of context?

Answer 2

The external factors that shape how texts are produced and received

Question 3

What is a text receiver?

Answer 3

The person/people who interpret a written or spoken text through reading or listening to it

Question 4

what is the Text producer?

Answer 4

The person or people create a written or spoken text

Question 5

What is the mode?

Answer 5

The physical channel of communication (speech/writing)

Question 6

What is blended mode?

Answer 6

A text containing elements of speech and writing

Question 7

What is the implied audience?

Answer 7

A constructed image of an idealised reader

Question 8

What is the actual audience?

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Any person or groups of people who engage with and interpret a text

Question 9

What is the purpose?

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Reason why the text was written

Question 10

What is the primary purpose?

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The main and most easily recognisable purpose

Question 11

What is the secondary purpose?

Answer 11

An additional, perhaps more suitable purpose

Question 12

What is a Multi-purpose text?

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A text that clearly has more than one purpose

Question 13

What is lexis?

Answer 13

The term we use to refer to vocabulary

Question 14

what are nouns?

Answer 14

Words that name a thing or concept

Question 15

What are verbs?

Answer 15

Words that show a state of being, action or event

Question 16

What are adjectives?

Answer 16

Word that modifies a noun

Question 17

What are adverbs?

Answer 17

Modifies a verb, an adjective or another adverb.

Question 18

What is a pronoun?

Answer 18

Substitutes a noun

Question 19

What is a determinator?

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Adds detail or clarity to nouns

Question 20

What is a preposition?

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Provides connections between words (place/time)

Question 21

What is a conjunction?

Answer 21

Provides connection between phrases, clauses etc

Question 22

What is are semantics?

Answer 22

Study of meaning in language

Question 23

what is a Semantic field?

Answer 23

A group of topics surrounded by a common topic/theme.

Question 24

Definition of collonates?

Answer 24

Words that are commonly associated with each other ‘cosmetic’ ‘surgery’

Question 25

what is Morphology?

Answer 25

The study of word formation Root- A morpheme that stands on its own Suffix-Comes after a root word to modify its meaning Prefix-Goes before a root word to modify it’s meaning

Question 26

What is Syntax?

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The study of how words form larger structures such as: phrases (noun/verb)

Question 27

What are Primary auxiliary verbs?

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Verbs that indicate the tense of the sentence: be, do, have, is ,was, been, has, does, did...

Question 28

What are Modal auxiliary verbs?

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The verb that indicates the level of commitment of certainty in the phrase: Should, will, might,must,may,can…

Question 29

What is Active voice?

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The agency of the subject is emphasised (makes the action sound deliberate) e.g. ‘Fox seriously injures baby’

Question 30

What is Passive voice?

Answer 30

The consequences for the action are emphasized and the agency is downplayed. E.g. ‘baby is mauled by fox’

Question 31

What are exchanges?

Answer 31

A sequence of terms

Question 32

What are adjacency pairs?

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Exchanges that take place in two moves or ADJACENCY PAIR e.g.

Question 33

what is Agenda setting ?

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Who initiates the topic/chooses the subject.

Question 34

What is Deixis?

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Deictic words have meanings which depend on their context to be understood

Question 35

What is person deixis?

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Names and personal pronouns (i, you, we, him, they)

Question 36

What is spatial deixis?

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Words relating to place (here, there, nearby, left, right, come, go)

Question 37

What is temporal deixis?

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Words relating to time (now, then, soon, next, tomorrow, yesterday)

Question 38

What is affordance?

Answer 38

An aspect of a particular genre or mode that dictates how it might be used

Question 39

What is graphology?

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Visual aspects of texts, including layout, typography and images.

Question 40

What is constraint?

Answer 40

An aspect of a particular genre or mode that limits its potential uses.

Question 41

What is symbolic sign?

Answer 41

A sign or image where an associated meaning drawn from some shared degree of knowledge

Question 42

What is modal shading?

Answer 42

Modal shading is the dominant type of modality that an extract or text displays