Text producers and receivers

Question 1

context

Answer 1

the external factors that shapes how texts + produced and received

Question 2

discourse event

Answer 2

an act of communication occuring in a specific time + location involving writers/ speakers + readers/ listeners

Question 3

text producer

Answer 3

the person/ people responsible (through writing/ speaking) for creating a text

Question 4

text receiver

Answer 4

the person/people interpreting (through reading/ listening) a text

Question 5

multi-purpose text

Answer 5

a text that clearly has more than 1 purpose

Question 6

primary purpose

Answer 6

the main + most easily recognisable purpose

Question 7

secondary purpose

Answer 7

an additional + perhaps more subtle purpose

Question 8

implied reader

Answer 8

a constructed image of an idealised reader

Question 9

actual reader

Answer 9

any person or groups of people who engage with + interpret a text

Question 10

implied writer

Answer 10

a constructed image of an idealised writer

Question 11

actual writer

Answer 11

the ‘real’ person or people responsible for text production

Question 12

discourse community

Answer 12

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

Question 13

discourse event

Answer 13

an act of communication occuring in a specific time + location involving writers/ speakers + readers/ listeners