Language and Texts

Question 1

Audience construction

Answer 1

Refers to how audiences are constructed through the language chosen by the writer or speaker

Question 2

Narrator

Answer 2

Persona or fictionalised figure that is chosen by the writer

Question 3

Naratee

Answer 3

Fictional receiver, the person that the text appears to be aimed at

Question 4

Interlocutor

Answer 4

People engaged in a spoken conversation

Question 5

Spoken interaction

Answer 5

• informal
• non standard styles of speech
• prosodic, paralinguistic features and non verbal aspects

Question 6

Written text

Answer 6

Planned, edited, formal, SE, comprehensive

Question 7

CMC

Answer 7

Computer mediated communication

Question 8

Hybrid

Answer 8

New form of communication often seen as having some of the characteristics of both spoken and written language

Question 9

Affordances

Answer 9

Things that are made possible

Question 10

Limitations

Answer 10

Things that are prevented or restricted

Question 11

Oracy

Answer 11

Speaking and listening

Question 12

Mode

Answer 12

Written or spoken texts

Question 13

Inter textual

Answer 13

Retro feel in texts linking them with those of former times

Question 14

Multimodal

Answer 14

Employs more than one mode of communication. E.g. Using images as well as words

Question 15

Repertoire

Answer 15

Range of language forms or styles used by a speaker

Question 16

Graphological aspects

Answer 16

Design and arrangement such as colour, typeface, layout, logos, images, punctuation, links

Question 17

Phonological aspects

Answer 17

Volume, pitch, stress and intonation patterns, paralinguistic effects, how sounds are symbolised and manipulated in writing to achieve particular effects

Question 18

Lexical and semantic aspects

Answer 18

Type of formality, taboo, euphemism, connotation, collocation, idioms, metaphors, similes

Question 19

Grammatical aspects

Answer 19

Pronouns, modifiers, verbs, sentence types and syntaxis

Question 20

Pragmatic aspects

Answer 20

Inference, assumed shared meanings, cultural variations, context of reception and audience construction

Question 21

Discourse

Answer 21

Cohesion, genre, context, society’s attitudes

Question 22

Critical discourse analysis

Answer 22

Power structures that are maintained in society through the discourses used

Question 23

Rethorical question

Answer 23

Question that it assumes that the answer is already obvious