Introductory Key Vocabulary 0.0 / 5 ? English LanguageLanguage BeginningsA2/A-levelAQA Created by: miss_t2000Created on: 21-04-19 22:20 Meta-language Language about language 1 of 30 Utterance A segment of speech 2 of 30 Context the background upon which a text conveys its meanings 3 of 30 Discourse Event an act of communication occurring at a specific time and involving specific receivers and producers 4 of 30 Text Producer the person or institution responsible for creating a text - either written or spoken 5 of 30 Text Receiver the people or person interpreting a text - either hearing or reading 6 of 30 Multi-purpose Text A text which clearly has more than one purpose 7 of 30 Primary Purpose The main and most easily recognisable intention of the text 8 of 30 Secondary Purpose an additional and perhaps more subtle intention of a text 9 of 30 Implied Reader a constructed image of the idealised reader 10 of 30 Actual Reader any person or group of people who engage with and interpret a text 11 of 30 Implied Writer the constructed image of an idealised writer or producer 12 of 30 Actual Writer the 'real' person or group of people responsible for the text production 13 of 30 Discourse Community a group of people with a shared interest and belief system who are likely to respond to texts in the same or a similar way 14 of 30 Variation the differences associated with particular instances of language use and between groups of language users 15 of 30 Register a variety of language that is associated with a particular situation of use 16 of 30 Situation of Use a specific time, place, date, or context in which communication occurs 17 of 30 Situational Characteristics a key characteristic of the context in which communication occurs 18 of 30 Dialect variation in words and structures associated with a particular geographical region 19 of 30 Accent variation in pronunciation associated with a particular geographical region 20 of 30 Sociolect variation in language use associated with membership of a particular social group 21 of 30 Idiolect variation in language use associated with an individual's personal speech style 22 of 30 Representation the portrayal of events, people, and circumstances through language and other meaning-making recourses (eg images) to offer a perspective of the world 23 of 30 Mode the physical channel of communication used - either written, spoken or blended 24 of 30 Oppositional View a method of defining the difference between modes by arguing that they have different features (Naomi Baron, 2001) 25 of 30 Continuum a sequence in which elements may take any value between two extremes 26 of 30 Blended Mode a text which contains conventional features of both writing and speech 27 of 30 Prototype Model a model of looking at differences within a category or mode by considering typical and less typical examples 28 of 30 Genre a method of grouping texts based upon expected shared conventions 29 of 30 Intertextuality a process by which texts borrow or refer to conventions of other textual genres for a specific effect or purpose 30 of 30
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