Key AO3 (Paper 1, 2)

Question 1

Genre

Answer 1

The classification of different texts

Question 2

Register

Answer 2

A variety of language associated with a particular field of reference

Question 3

Audience

Answer 3

The receivers of intended receivers- who is it aimed at?

Question 4

Mode

Answer 4

The way in which language is communicated between producer and receiver

Question 5

Purpose

Answer 5

Intended objective behind a text

Question 6

Style

Answer 6

The narrative technique : tone, word class, grammar

Question 7

Features of a far left (labour) newspaper

Answer 7

Progressive views, slight leaning towards communism, unifying, descriptivist

Question 8

Features of a far right (conservative) newspaper

Answer 8

Traditional social views, capitalism, anti-left rhetoric, large readership (working class), prescriptivism

Question 9

Features of a blog

Answer 9

Close audience positioning, synthetic personalisation, transactional utterances, sense of community, low register, rapport building

Question 10

Features of high register

Answer 10

Standard English, high formality, elevated lexis

Question 11

Features of low register

Answer 11

Taboo, colloquialisms, non-standard English, Americanisms

Question 12

Features of mixed register

Answer 12

Flows in and out of high and low register

Question 13

In terms of the text, which two eras can it be from?

Answer 13

Modern or archaic

Question 14

Tenor?

Answer 14

The writers relationship to a reader

Question 15

Features of a good tenor

Answer 15

Shared knowledge, jokes, prompts, all encompassing lexis, grouped audience

Question 16

Features of writing for a smaller audience

Answer 16

Specific demographic, utilises vernacular, close positioning, assumptions made about reader, small scale readership, weak/strong tenor

Question 17

Features of writing for a large audience

Answer 17

Broad demographic, all encompassing lexis, large scale readership, weak/strong tenor

Question 18

Poetic voice

Answer 18

The way in which a sense of identity is projected through language to give the impression of a distinct persona

Question 19

Features of setting a strong ideological viewpoint

Answer 19

Intensifiers and adjectives, italicisation, strong implicature, repetition etc

Question 20

Examples of what the ideological viewpoint could be

Answer 20

Distain, admiration, respect, criticism

Question 21

Purpose of direct addressment

Answer 21

Synthetic personalisation, rapport building, close audience positioning,

Question 22

What does synthetic personalisation turn the text into?

Answer 22

An interactional/conversational like text= close audience positioning

Question 23

Audience positioning

Answer 23

Assumptions made in a text about readers knowledge, understanding attitudes and beliefs ( Can be close or far positioning)

Question 24

Why is context important in helping one understand the point of view?

Answer 24

Relate to idea of the context of production vs reception

Question 25

Key features of spoken mode

Answer 25

Turn taking, back channelling, fillers, hedges, tag qs, false starts, expressions of emotion, adjacency pairs

Question 26

Features of written mode

Answer 26

Standard, elevated lexis, punctuated, correct grammar

Question 27

Features of a multimodal text

Answer 27

Dialectal forms, emulates spoken features, non-standard

Question 28

What is an important thing to consider regarding mode?

Answer 28

Does it follow the rules of grammar and conversation or is this challenged?

Question 29

Key purposes of a text

Answer 29

Inform, persuade, educate, entertain,

Question 30

What is an important thing to consider regarding a texts’ purpose?

Answer 30

What is the writers overall message/stance?

Question 31

Key features relating the the purpose of a text

Answer 31

Humour, sarcasm, facts, statistics, sentence types/function, shared jokes

Question 32

Types of purpose

Answer 32

Primary, secondary, duel purposes

Question 33

Structural features

Answer 33

Cyclical, non-cyclical, linear, focus, shifts, narrative threads, listing, paragraph/ sentence lengths

Question 34

Graphology

Answer 34

The study of written and printed symbols and of writing systems.

Question 35

Key graphology features

Answer 35

How is the cultural model presented due to this (company representation)
Headings, sub headings, captions

Question 36

What does headings, sub headings, captions determines about a text?

Answer 36

Indicates the texts’ purpose

Question 37

Key features of narrative technique

Answer 37

Figurative language, underlying themes, tone of stance,