Other

Question 1

Context

Answer 1

The environment in which the text appears:
Setting
Form/text type
Mode
Cultural context
Authorial intent
Preparedness

Question 2

Setting

Answer 2

The immediate circumstances in which a discourse occurs

Question 3

Form/text type

Answer 3

This is type of text it is.
Eg. Conversation, text, article, etc.

Question 4

Mode

Answer 4

How is the text communicated
Spoken, written or signed

Question 5

Cultural Context

Answer 5

The values, attitudes and beliefs held by the participants in a discourse, as well as the values, attitudes and beliefs of the wider community at the time in which the discourse occurs

Question 6

Authorial intent

Answer 6

What is the speaker or writer trying to achieve?

Question 7

Preparedness

Answer 7

Whether the text is scripted, rehearsed, edited or more/purely spontaneous

Question 8

Register

Answer 8

the variety of language used in a particular setting, this includes the level of formality of the language used, the domain of the language and specific occupational/technical language- eg. medicine or legal

Question 9

Audience

Answer 9

person/people a text is intended for and how a speaker/writer might change their language to suit this audience

Question 10

Domain

Answer 10

Words and phrases which are connected by meaning/topic.. include examples!!

Question 11

Tenor

Answer 11

The relationship between the speaker/writer and the audience. This is influenced by a range of factors, such as:how well the participants know each other, the power differences between them , eg. the status of each person.
Described as socially close or distant

Question 12

Function

Answer 12

What the main aim of the text or what it is trying to achieve.
Referential
Emotive
Conative
Phatic
Metalinguistic
Poetic

Question 13

Purpose

Answer 13

Why the speaker/writer is using this language.

Question 14

Purposes for Informal texts

Answer 14

• encouraging intimacy, solidarity, equality
• politeness strategies
• promoting linguistic innovation
• promoting social harmony, negotiating social taboos and building rapport
• supporting in-group membership

Question 15

Purposes for formal texts

Answer 15

• Politeness strategies
• reinforcing social distance and authority
• establishing expertise
• promoting social harmony, negotiating social taboos and building rapport
• clarifying, manipulating or obfuscating

Question 16

Pre-linguistic (Birth- 6 months)

Question 17

Babbling Stage (6-12 months)

Question 18

Holophrastic (12-18 months)

Question 19

Two Word (18- 24 months)

Question 20

Multiword (36 months)

Question 21

Telegraphic (24-30 months)

Question 22

Prescriptivists

Question 23

Descriptivists

Question 24

pidgin

Answer 24

A makeshift language that springs up when speakers of different linguistic backgrounds come together and need to communicate. Usually the socially dominant language provides much of the lexicon while significant features of the grammar come from other sources.

Question 25

creole

Answer 25

A nativised pidgin; i.e a pidgin language that has become the mother tongue of speech community