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What Is The Definition Of Genre?

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A way of grouping texts based on expected shared conventions

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What is the definition of context?

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The external factors that shape how texts are produced and received

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What is a text receiver?

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

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what is the Text producer?

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The person or people create a written or spoken text

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What is the mode?

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The physical channel of communication (speech/writing)

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What is blended mode?

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A text containing elements of speech and writing

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What is the implied audience?

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A constructed image of an idealised reader

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What is the actual audience?

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

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What is the purpose?

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Reason why the text was written

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What is the primary purpose?

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The main and most easily recognisable purpose

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What is the secondary purpose?

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An additional, perhaps more suitable purpose

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What is a Multi-purpose text?

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A text that clearly has more than one purpose

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What is lexis?

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The term we use to refer to vocabulary

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what are nouns?

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Words that name a thing or concept

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What are verbs?

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Words that show a state of being, action or event

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What are adjectives?

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Word that modifies a noun

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What are adverbs?

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Modifies a verb, an adjective or another adverb.

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What is a pronoun?

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Substitutes a noun

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What is a determinator?

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Adds detail or clarity to nouns

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What is a preposition?

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Provides connections between words (place/time)

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What is a conjunction?

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Provides connection between phrases, clauses etc

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What is are semantics?

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Study of meaning in language

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what is a Semantic field?

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

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Definition of collonates?

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

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what is Morphology?

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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

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What is Syntax?

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

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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…

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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…

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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’

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What is Passive voice?

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

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What are exchanges?

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A sequence of terms

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What are adjacency pairs?

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

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what is Agenda setting ?

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Who initiates the topic/chooses the subject.

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What is Deixis?

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

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What is person deixis?

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

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What is spatial deixis?

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

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What is temporal deixis?

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

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What is affordance?

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

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What is graphology?

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

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What is constraint?

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

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What is symbolic sign?

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

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What is modal shading?

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

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