Terminology - Context and Audience

Question 1

What is affordance?

Answer 1

A feature of a text which allows it to reach a certain audience or audiences

Question 2

What is asynchronous communication?

Answer 2

Communication where production and reception happen non-simultaneously

Question 3

What is blended-mode?

Answer 3

A text which contains conventional elements of both speech and writing

Question 4

What is a constraint?

Answer 4

A feature of text which limits the way in which audiences can consume it

Question 5

What is context?

Answer 5

The external factors that shape how texts are produced and received

Question 6

What is discourse community?

Answer 6

A group of people with shared interests and belief systems who are likely to respond to texts in similar ways

Question 7

What is a discourse event?

Answer 7

An act of communication occurring in a specific time and location involving writers/speakers and readers/listeners

Question 8

What is downgrading?

Answer 8

When a speaker responds to disagreement by becoming less intense about their opinion

Question 9

What is endophoric storytelling?

Answer 9

When a story is produced in the same location as where it took place

Question 10

What is exophoric storytelling?

Answer 10

When a story is produced outside the location where it took place

Question 11

What is gap-filling?

Answer 11

The act of adding a rich sense of meaning to individual words and phrases based on our own knowledge and the context in which they appear

Question 12

What is a genre?

Answer 12

A way of grouping texts based on expected shared conventions

Question 13

What is an implied reader?

Answer 13

A constructed image of an idealised reader

Question 14

What is intertextuality?

Answer 14

A process by which texts borrow from or refer to conventions of other texts for a specific purpose or effect

Question 15

What is a knowledge frame/pragmatic knowledge?

Answer 15

A mental store of knowledge about the world gained through experience

Question 16

What is a mode?

Answer 16

The physical channel of communication: either speech or writing

Question 17

What is a multi-purpose text?

Answer 17

A text that clearly has more than one purpose

Question 18

What is othering?

Answer 18

Presenting a culture or community as different or strange in some way

Question 19

What is primary purpose?

Answer 19

The main and most easily recognisable purpose of a text

Question 20

What is a register?

Answer 20

A variety of language that is associated with a particular situation of use

In particular, refers to how formal or informal a text or producers language is

Question 21

What is representation?

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The portrayal of events, people and circumstances through language and other meaning-making resources (e.g. images and sound) to create a way of seeing the world

Question 22

What is secondary purpose?

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An additional and perhaps more suitable purpose of a text

Question 23

What is situation of use?

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A specific place, time and context in which communication takes place

Question 24

What is subjectivity?

Answer 24

Being seen from a particular perspective

Question 25

What is synchronous communication?

Answer 25

Communication where production and reception happen simultaneously

Question 26

What is a text producer?

Answer 26

The person or people responsible (through writing or speaking) for creating a text

Question 27

What is a text receiver?

Answer 27

The person or people interpreting (through reading or listening to) a text

Question 28

What is upgrading?

Answer 28

When a speaker responds to disagreement by becoming more intense about their opinion