Key Info For Exams

Question 1

Purpose

Answer 1

Multi-purpose text (primary, secondary)

Question 2

Implied reader

Answer 2

A constructed image of a reader who best fits the central message, beliefs and world-views the text is presenting. Idealised reader

Question 3

Actual reader

Answer 3

Anyone who engages with and interprets a text. Reading and interpreting in different contexts, and influenced by their own belief systems. May choose to resist any kinds of ideology that are projected for them by a text producer

Question 4

A constructed image of an idealised writer

Answer 4

Implied writer - reader constructs

Question 5

Discourse community

Answer 5

A group of people with shared interests and belief systems who are likely to respond to texts in similar ways e.g. 1D fans

Question 6

Mode

Answer 6

Blended-mode texts

Question 7

A process by which texts borrow from or refer to conventions of other texts for a specific purpose and effect

Answer 7

Intertextuality

Question 8

Register

Answer 8

Academic spoken register, informative written register, conversational register, neutral, informal, and vulgar.

Question 9

Representation

Answer 9

The portrayal of events, people and circumstances through language and other methods (images, sounds) to create a way of seeing the world. How a way of seeing the world is projected

Question 10

What can representation be a result of?

Answer 10

Wider societal values and way of ‘seeing the world’ that is particular to an era or certain culture

Question 11

Key term

Answer 11

Variation