Key terms Flashcards
Layout
the way the texts physical;y structured
Typographical features
features of the font used in texts like size, color
orthographical features
features of writing like spelling, capitalisation and punctuation
multimodel texts
texts include multiple things eg. images writing and sound
audience
The receiver or intended receiver of a text
corpus
a body of language data that has been systematically gathered and stored, used for analysis
foregrounding
the way texts emphasize key events through the use of attention-seeking language
genre
categorizing different types of texts according to their features of expected shared conventions
mode
the way in which language is communicated between producer and receiver eg as an image, writing, speaking
narrative
a type of text that functions to tell us a series of events
positioning
how text producer places themselves to the subject being presented and towards the audience being addressed
register
language used that’s associated with a specific field
representation
how experiences, views, and ideas and presented to readers through language
style
level of formality
