Terminology

Question 1

metalanguage.

Answer 1

language about language.

Question 2

utterance.

Answer 2

a segment of speech.

Question 3

context.

Answer 3

the background of a text.

Question 4

discourse event.

Answer 4

an act of communication happening in a specific time and location.

Question 5

text producer.

Answer 5

the person/people responsible for creating the text.

Question 6

text receiver.

Answer 6

the person/people interpreting the text.

Question 7

multi-purpose text.

Answer 7

text that has more than one purpose.

Question 8

primary purpose.

Answer 8

the main purpose.

Question 9

secondary purpose.

Answer 9

an additional purpose.

Question 10

CGAP.

Answer 10

context, genre, audience, purpose.

Question 11

shared knowledge.

Answer 11

word/phrase that reminds you of something.

Question 12

schema.

Answer 12

mental representation of smth created thru previous experiences.

Question 13

personal anecdote.

Answer 13

writer talking about their own life.

Question 14

representation.

Answer 14

how smth is expressed.

Question 15

multi-modal

Answer 15

the use of two types of texts.

Question 16

facilitation.

Answer 16

examiner’s response to encourage someone to say more.

Question 17

deixis.

Answer 17

words that are context-bound where meaning depends on who is being referred to/where smth is happening/when it’s happening.

Question 18

paralinguistic features.

Answer 18

body language.

Question 19

cultural hegemony.

Answer 19

the persuasive and excessive influence of one culture throughout society.

Question 20

implied reader.

Answer 20

constructed image of an idealised reader.

Question 21

actual reader.

Answer 21

anybody who ends up reading the text.

Question 22

implied writer.

Answer 22

constructed image of the idealised writer.

Question 23

actual writer.

Answer 23

the real person/people who produced the text.

Question 24

discourse community.

Answer 24

group of people with shared interests and belief systems to respond to texts in similar ways.

Question 25

mode.

Answer 25

physical channel of communication; ie. speech or writing.

Question 26

oppositional view.

Answer 26

method of defining the difference between modes by arguing that they have completely different features.

Question 27

continuum.

Answer 27

sequence in which elements next to each other are subtly different but those at opposite ends are very different.

Question 28

blended-mode.

Answer 28

text that contains conventional elements of both speech and writing.

Question 29

proto-type model.

Answer 29

model of looking at differences within a category or mode by thinking about typical and less typical examples.

Question 30

genre.

Answer 30

a method of grouping texts based on expected shared conventions.

Question 31

intertextuality.

Answer 31

process where texts reference to other conventions of texts for a specific reason or effect.