Key terms (additional)

Question 1

Audience

Answer 1

the receivers or intended receivers of a text

Question 2

Discourses

Answer 2

can be used to refer to a mode of a language
- e.g. spoken or written discourse
a register
- e.g. medical or legal discourse
a way of thinking about and presenting something
- e.g. representing language using a discourse of decay

Question 3

Foregrounding

Answer 3

the way in which texts emphasise key events or ideas through the use of attention-seeking devices that either repeat content (parallelism) or break established patterns (deviation)