Producers, Recievers, Mode and Genre Flashcards
Discourse event
Act of communication occuring in a specific time and location involving writers or speakers and readers or listeners.
Text Producer
The person or group of people responsible through writing or speaking for creating a text.
Text receiver
The person or people interpreting the text through reading or listening.
Multi purpose text
A text that clearly has more than one purpose.
Primary purpose
Main and most recognised purpose.
Secondary purpose
Additional usually more subtle purpose.
Implied reader
A constructed image of an idealised reader.
Actual reader
Any person or group of people who engage and interpret a text.
Implied writer
Constructed image of an idealised writer.
Actual writer
The ‘real’ person or people responsible for text production.
Discourse community
A group of people with shared interests and belief systems likely to respond to texts in similar ways.
Mode
The physical channel of communication: either speech or writing.
Oppositional view
Way of defining difference between modes by arguing that they have completely different features.
Continuum
Sequence in which elements that are next to eachother are unnoticably different but elements at opposite ends are very different from eachother.
