Written mode Flashcards
What is register?
The level of formality that’s determined by context
It is either written in high or low register
What is the situation of use?
A specific place, time, and context where communication takes place
What is the situational characteristic?
The specific aspects of the place, time, and context where communication takes place
What questions do we ask to work out the situational characteristics?
- Whos communicating
- Whats their relationship
- Whats the purpose of the communication?
- Face-to-face or separated by time and place?
What is the frozen level in levels of formality?
Set phrases that don’t change
(weddings, ceremonies)
What is the formal level in levels of formality?
Used in professional environments with no interaction between speaker and audience
What is the consulative level in levels of formality?
Used in conversations between nonfamily and friend members
(eg teachers, employees)
What is the Casual level in levels of formality?
Language used between people who know each other well
(friends)
What is the intimate level in levels of formality?
Language used among families close friends and lovers
(eg code and invented words)
What are the 5 features of speech and writing?
Writing-
monologue, one way
fixed
planned
structured
grammatically complex
Speech-
dialogue, interactive
flexible
spontaneuos
loosely structured
grammatically simple
What is the audience address?
The way the writer addresses the audience
What is audience construction?
Texts that construct ideas of who the audience is by addressing them in a certain way
What is synthetic personalization?
Making it seem as if the text receiver is being addressed as an individual rather than a mass group
What is audience positioning?
Assumptions that are made in a text about its readers
