Other Flashcards
Context
The environment in which the text appears:
Setting
Form/text type
Mode
Cultural context
Authorial intent
Preparedness
Setting
The immediate circumstances in which a discourse occurs
Form/text type
This is type of text it is.
Eg. Conversation, text, article, etc.
Mode
How is the text communicated
Spoken, written or signed
Cultural Context
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
Authorial intent
What is the speaker or writer trying to achieve?
Preparedness
Whether the text is scripted, rehearsed, edited or more/purely spontaneous
Register
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
Audience
person/people a text is intended for and how a speaker/writer might change their language to suit this audience
Domain
Words and phrases which are connected by meaning/topic.. include examples!!
Tenor
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
Function
What the main aim of the text or what it is trying to achieve.
Referential
Emotive
Conative
Phatic
Metalinguistic
Poetic
Purpose
Why the speaker/writer is using this language.
Purposes for Informal texts
- encouraging intimacy, solidarity, equality
- politeness strategies
- promoting linguistic innovation
- promoting social harmony, negotiating social taboos and building rapport
- supporting in-group membership
Purposes for formal texts
- Politeness strategies
- reinforcing social distance and authority
- establishing expertise
- promoting social harmony, negotiating social taboos and building rapport
- clarifying, manipulating or obfuscating
Pre-linguistic (Birth- 6 months)
Babbling Stage (6-12 months)
Holophrastic (12-18 months)
Two Word (18- 24 months)
Multiword (36 months)
Telegraphic (24-30 months)
Prescriptivists
Descriptivists
pidgin
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.
creole
A nativised pidgin; i.e a pidgin language that has become the mother tongue of speech community
