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6. What is a discourse community?

  • A group of people who share the same beliefs so will likely respond to the text in similar ways
  • A group of people who share different beliefs so will likely respond to the text in different ways

7. The implied reader is...

  • a specifically targeted audience
  • a constructed image of an idealised reader
  • an exact image of a reader

8. What is the context of reception?

  • The methods of the text being received
  • The situations in which a text is written and those factors that might influence a reader’s interpretation
  • The situations in which a text is read and those factors that might influence a reader’s interpretation
  • How a text is read

9. What is context?

  • A speech
  • Specifically refers to the date of a text's origin
  • The various settings of a text
  • What type of text something is