The joining of two clauses that gives one clause - the main - clause more weighting than another or clauses - the subordinate clauses.
Subordination
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Any person or groups of people who engage with and interpret a text.
Actual reader
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The person or people responsible for creating a text.
Text producer
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A group of people with shared interests and belief systems who are likely to respond to texts in similar ways.
Discourse community
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The main and most easily recognisable purpose.
Primary purpose
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A text that clearly has more than one purpose.
Multipurpose text
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An additional and perhaps more subtle purpose.
Secondary purpose
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The reader that the text is targeting. The target audience.
Implied reader
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An act of communication occurring in a specific time and location involving writers/speakers and readers/listeners.
Discourse event
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The 'real' person or people responsible for text production.
Actual writer
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People or someone who interprets a text.
Text receiver
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A constructed image of an idealised writer.
Implied writer
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Written or spoken communication or debate.
Discourse
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The vocabulary of a language, as distinct from its grammar; the total stock of words and idiomatic combinations of them in a language.
Lexis
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Study of meaning.
Semantics
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Language about language.
Metalangage
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Variation in words and structures associated with a particular geographical region, excluding their regional pronunciations.
Dialect
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The way people pronounce words.
Accent
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A segment of speech.
Utterance
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The differences associated with particular instances of language use and groups of language users.
Variation
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A variety of language that is associated with a particular situation of use. Type of language that is appropriate for a particular audience. Also includes levels of formality.
Register
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A specific place, time and context in which communication happens.
Situation of use
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A key characteristic of the time, place and contexts in which communication happens.
Situational characteristic
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Variation in language use associated with membership of a particular social group.
Sociolect
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Variation in language use associated with an individual's personalised 'speech style'.
Idiolect
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The portrayal of events, people and circumstances through language and other meaning-making resources to create a way of seeing the world.
Representation
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A group of words that fulfill the same kind of role and function in speech and writing.
Semantic field
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Words that typically appear together.
Collocates
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A well-used group of words that becomes accepted and used as one long structure.
Fixed expression
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Using a blunt or direct word instead of a more polite or indirect alternative, close to taboo.
Dysphemism
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A word whose meaning is included in that of another word and denotes a subcategory of a more general class.
Hyponym
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A structure that presents one thing in terms of another.
Metaphor
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The study of word formation.
Morphology
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
Any person or groups of people who engage with and interpret a text.
Back
Actual reader
Card 3
Front
The person or people responsible for creating a text.
Back
Card 4
Front
A group of people with shared interests and belief systems who are likely to respond to texts in similar ways.
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