Language and Texts Flashcards
Audience construction
Refers to how audiences are constructed through the language chosen by the writer or speaker
Narrator
Persona or fictionalised figure that is chosen by the writer
Naratee
Fictional receiver, the person that the text appears to be aimed at
Interlocutor
People engaged in a spoken conversation
Spoken interaction
- informal
- non standard styles of speech
- prosodic, paralinguistic features and non verbal aspects
Written text
Planned, edited, formal, SE, comprehensive
CMC
Computer mediated communication
Hybrid
New form of communication often seen as having some of the characteristics of both spoken and written language
Affordances
Things that are made possible
Limitations
Things that are prevented or restricted
Oracy
Speaking and listening
Mode
Written or spoken texts
Inter textual
Retro feel in texts linking them with those of former times
Multimodal
Employs more than one mode of communication. E.g. Using images as well as words
Repertoire
Range of language forms or styles used by a speaker
Graphological aspects
Design and arrangement such as colour, typeface, layout, logos, images, punctuation, links
Phonological aspects
Volume, pitch, stress and intonation patterns, paralinguistic effects, how sounds are symbolised and manipulated in writing to achieve particular effects
Lexical and semantic aspects
Type of formality, taboo, euphemism, connotation, collocation, idioms, metaphors, similes
Grammatical aspects
Pronouns, modifiers, verbs, sentence types and syntaxis
Pragmatic aspects
Inference, assumed shared meanings, cultural variations, context of reception and audience construction
Discourse
Cohesion, genre, context, society’s attitudes
Critical discourse analysis
Power structures that are maintained in society through the discourses used
Rethorical question
Question that it assumes that the answer is already obvious
