Text Key Terms Flashcards
What is metalanguage?
It is language about a language.
What is an utterance?
It is a segment of speech.
What is context?
It is the background against which a text conveys its meaning.
What is a discourse event?
It is an act of communication occurring in a specific time and location involving writers/speakers and readers/listeners.
What is a text producer?
The person or people responsible for creating a text.
What is a text receiver?
The person or people interpreting (through reading or listening to) a text.
What is a multi-purpose text?
It is a text that clearly has more than one purpose.
What is a primary purpose?
The main and most easily recognisable purpose.
What is a secondary purpose?
An addition and more subtle purpose.
What is an implied reader?
It is a constructed image of an idealised reader.
What is an actual reader?
It is any person or groups of people who engage with and interpret a text.
What is an implied writer?
It is a constructed image of an idealised writer.
What is an actual writer?
The real person or people responsible for text production.
What is a discourse community?
It is a group of people with shared interests and belief systems who are likely to respond to texts in similar ways. E
What is mode?
It is the physical channel of communication.
Either speech or writing.
What is an oppositional view?
It is a way of defining the difference between modes by arguing that they have completely different features.
What is a continuum?
It is a sequence In which elements that are next to each other are not noticeably different but elements at the opposite ends are very different from each other.
What is blended mode?
It is a text which contains conventional elements of both speech and writing.
What is genre?
It is a way of grouping texts based on expected shared conventions.
What is intertextuality?
It is a process by which texts borrow from or refer to conventions of other texts for specific purpose and effect.
What is variation?
It is the differences associated with particular instances of language use and between groups of language users?
What is a register?
It is a variety of language that is associated with a particular situation of use.
What is a situation of use?
It is a specific place, time and context in which communication takes place.
What are situational characteristics?
It is a key characteristic of the time, place and contexts in which communication takes place.
What is dialect?
It is a variation in words and structures associated with a particular geographical region.
What is accent?
It is a variation in pronunciation associated with a particular geographical region.
What is sociolect?
It is variation in language use associated with membership of a particular social group.
What is idiolect?
It is variation in language use associated with an individuals personalised speech style.
What is representation?
It is the portrayal of events, people and circumstances through language and other mean making resources (e.g. images and sounds) to create a way of seeing the world.
